5.5.17. Using Unified Mail

With Unified Mail you can display email messages from multiple email accounts in one central folder. This gives you a quick overview of multiple email account inboxes. Unified Mail can be described as follows:

  • In addition to an email account's Inbox the Unified Mail folder displays an additional email view for an account. The email messages actually exist only once.

  • Email messages in the Inbox's subfolders are not displayed in the Unified Mail folder.

  • The email messages in the Unified Mail folder are marked with a label in the side bar. The label is displayed below an email's subject. It contains the email account's name. The internal email account is marked with the label Email.

The following functions are available:

  • To use Unified Mail enable the function for one or more email accounts.

  • You can display email messages in the Unified Mail folder.

How to activate Unified Mail for an email account:

  1. Click the System menu icon on the right side of the menu bar. Click on Settings.

  2. Click on Email and Social Accounts in the side bar.

  3. Select an external email account in the display area below Email and Social Accounts.

  4. Click on Edit. A pop-up will show the settings.

  5. Enable Use Unified Mail for this account.

  6. Click on Save in the pop-up.

How to display email messages in theUnified Mail folder:

  1. Open the Unified Mail folder in the folder tree.

  2. Alternatively, click on a subfolder in the Unified Mail folder.

Tip: The account is indicated with a label below an email's subject in the side bar.