Squirrel Mail Confusion

[queenpictoria]

I have been through the Squirrel mail options panel fairly well.

I don't seem to be able to set up sub-folders under my email folder list.

 

I go to the folders screen, and make sure the folder is empty because I know

that folders and emails cannot occupy the same folder.

 

I type in a name for a sub-folder, and where it says "as a subfolder of"

and there is a dropdown box. I click on the drop down box, and all it gives me is "none".

 

What steps do I need to take to set up subfolders.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks,

queenpictoria

[queenpictoria]

I wonder why nobody is commenting here.

Am I missing something? Perhaps the solution will take care of itself

in a client service. Since it is offered on TCH, I thought there'd be

more info. Well, I'm getting slowly.

 

How do you use squirrel mail...if you do?

I am looking for an email filing system with subfolders.

 

TCH

 

 

queenpictoria

 

 

 

 

 

I have been through the Squirrel mail options panel fairly well.

I don't seem to be able to set up sub-folders under my email folder list.

 

I go to the folders screen, and make sure the folder is empty because I know

that folders and emails cannot occupy the same folder.

 

I type in a name for a sub-folder, and where it says "as a subfolder of"

and there is a dropdown box.  I click on the drop down box, and all it gives me is "none".

 

What steps do I need to take to set up subfolders.

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

 

Thanks,

queenpictoria

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[TCH-Thomas]

Hi queenpictoria,

 

First of all, there is really no need to "bump" as topic per the forum guidelines and we do read all posts.

 

However, I just tried to create a subfolder in squirrelmail.

 

What I did was to go to the subfolder page, entered the desired name, clicked create, refreshed the page and it showed up in my folder list to the left.

[TweezerMan]

I tried creating sub-folders in SquirrelMail on my account, and this does not appear to work.

 

When you go to the Folders page, type a name in the box and click "Create", the new folder created can only contain messages. I could not find any way to configure the new folder to allow creating sub-folders under the new folder. Under "Help" in SquirrelMail, topic 6.3 in "Folders" says the following:

On some mail servers, there are two types of folders. One that contains messages, and one that contains folders. You may see an option called "Let this folder contain subfolders." If you do and you check that, the folder you create will only be able to contain folders and not any messages. Otherwise, you will only be able to store messages in it and not folders.

I do not see the "Let this folder contain subfolders." option in my SquirrelMail, so it would seem that you can only create top-level folder that contain only messages from within SquirrelMail.

 

I did a little experimenting, and this process seems to allow creating folders that allow sub-folders:

 

1) Log out of SquirrelMail.

 

2) Log into your account with an FTP program, or log into your CPanel and go into File Manager.

 

3) Browse into the "mail" directory.

 

4) Within the "mail" directory, create a new directory with the name you want to use for the new top-level folder in SquirrelMail (such as "Saved Mail").

 

5) Log out of your FTP program, or exit the CPanel File Manager.

 

6) Log back into SquirrelMail, and click on the "Folders" link.

 

7) At the bottom of the page, under "Unsubscribe/Subscribe", you should see the name of the new directory you created in the right column. Click on the name to select it, then click the "Subscribe" button.

 

8) Click the "refresh folder list" link to refresh the list of folders in the left column. The new top-level folder should now appear in the list.

 

9) Now if you type a name in the "Create Folder" box, the new top-level folder can be selected in the "as a subfolder of" drop-down box, and clicking "Create" will create the new message folder as a subfolder of the top-level folder.

 

Hope this helps...