Office of Information Technology at Ohio University

Office of Information Technology at Ohio University

Creating Local Folders in Mulberry

Mulberry normally stores all messages directly on your Oak account. This makes it easy to access your mail from more than one location; however, it can pose problems if you regularly receive large attachments or want to archive all of your messages.

Local folders allow you to free up space on your Oak account by moving selected email messages to your computer's hard drive. Once you move a message to a local folder, it will no longer use up space on your Oak account; however, it also will only be accessible from that particular computer.

Creating a Local Mailbox

Go to Mulberry's File menu and choose Preferences.
Make sure the Advanced radio button is selected.
On the Accounts tab, click the IMAP drop-down box and choose New.
Type a name for your new local mailbox, choose "Local Mailbox" from the dropdown box, and click Ok. (Example)
Go to Mulberry's IMAP window and right-click (Apple-click for Mac) on your new local mailbox. Choose "Create" and enter a name for your new local folder.
- You can create as many or as few local folders as you like.
To move messages from Oak to a local folder, simply drag those messages from their Oak mailbox window and drop them on the appropriate local folder entry in your IMAP window.