58Manage Your Files

Not only is it important to design a filing system for your inbox that reflects the way you work, but it’s equally important to keep track of all the default folders that come as part and parcel of your e-mail program. Namely: Drafts, Sent, Spam, and Trash.

The Drafts folder is primarily designed to store messages that you have written but not completed. If, after composing an e-mail, you close the message window (rather than the normal procedure of hitting send), you are asked if you would like to save a draft of the file. If you do, it is sent to the Drafts folder.

Drafts folders are also useful for storing e-mail templates (such as form letters, product instructions, and directions), or any message you send repeatedly and ...

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