Private Mail

Mail and Your Mailbox

Tip - What is E-mail

Your mailbox is your personal area. It is the storage place for all of your personal electronic mail (e-mail), it contains copies of everything you have received and sent. These messages may be addressed to individuals, a group of people or to a conference, but they all appear in the mailbox.

FirstClass e-mails in your mailbox have an expiry period of 45 days. This means that if the period has not been extended messages will automatically be removed after 45 days. You are able to extend the expiry period on any message within your mailbox both those you have received and those you have sent. The expiry period cannot be done as a block, but has to be done on a message-by-message basis.

It is not policy to restore the backup for messages that have been allowed to expire.

It is possible for you to set up your FirstClass to appear similar to other e-mail systems.

1. Select View> Explore from the menubar
2. Resize the window (if required)
3. Close the window to return to a classic FirstClass view

If you wish to set this as a permanent option, further information can be found in the Preferences> Viewing part of the Customising section.

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