Cabinets

Cabinets provide a powerful mechanism for grouping sets of mailboxes together. In simple terms, a cabinet is a collection of aliases to different mailboxes. The server pane displays cabinets at the top of the mailbox list section, before any mail servers or mailboxes. Cabinets can not be displayed in individual server windows, only the main server window or in the 3-pane window's server pane. You can control which cabinets are displayed using the Cabinet popup menu in the toolbar. To display a cabinet, click on the Cabinet popup menu and select a cabinet name. Cabinets that are currently displayed have a check mark in front of their name. To hide a cabinet, click on the popup menu and select the appropriate cabinet name again.

Mulberry comes with several pre-defined cabinets. You can also create as many of your own cabinets as you like. The pre-defined cabinets that come with Mulberry are:

Check Favourites

This cabinet contains a list of mailboxes marked for automatic checking. This cabinet is used by the first alert style by default.

Open After Login

This cabinet contains a list of mailboxes that Mulberry should open automatically after starting up.

Copy Messages To

This cabinet contains a list of mailboxes that will appear in the Copy To popup in the Message window or the Copy to Mailbox sub-menu under the Messages menu. Note that the contents of this cabinet are only used if the 'Use Copy Messages To Cabinet' option is checked in the Advanced Mailbox preference panel.

Copy Drafts To

This cabinet contains a list of mailboxes that will appear in the Copy To popup in the Draft window or the Append to Mailbox sub-menu under the Draft menu. Note that the contents of this cabinet are only used if the 'Use Copy Drafts To Cabinet' option is checked in the Advanced Mailbox preference panel.

Mark Seen on Close

Mailboxes listed in this cabinet will automatically have all messages marked as seen when their mailboxes are closed.

Auto Synchronise

This cabinet contains a list of IMAP mailboxes that will be synchronized automatically when switching between connected and disconnected modes.

New Messages

This cabinet contains a list of all mailboxes that have new messages in them. This is a fast and convenient way to display a list of only those mailboxes that have new messages to be read. This cabinet is an example of an 'automatic' cabinet that is maintained by Mulberry. The contents of this cabinet can not be changed directly.

Subscribed

This cabinet contains a list of all mailboxes marked as subscribed in all IMAP mail accounts.

Cabinets can contain mailboxes from multiple mail servers. When multiple mail server accounts are defined, Mulberry will prepend the server name and a colon (:) to the mailbox names within a cabinet. The contents of cabinets are always sorted, first by server name and then either alphabetically or hierarchically.

To add a mailbox alias to a cabinet
First make sure the cabinet is visible at the top of the server window. Then, simply find the mailbox(es) that you wish to add to the cabinet and drag the icon for the mailbox(es) onto the appropriate cabinet icon. Mulberry will add an alias to the appropriate mailbox to the selected cabinet.
 
To remove a mailbox alias from a cabinet
Highlight the mailbox alias you wish to remove and press the delete key on your keyboard or choose Cabinets>Remove Item from the Mailbox menu. Removing a mailbox alias just removes that item, it does not delete the mailbox that it refers to.

Note You cannot change the contents of the 'New Messages' cabinet. The contents of this cabinet are managed automatically by Mulberry.

To create your own cabinet
Select New… from the Cabinet popup menu or select Cabinets>New Cabinet… from the Mailbox menu. Mulberry will prompt you for a name for the new cabinet. User-defined cabinets are listed after the pre-defined cabinets in the order that they are created. You can create as many cabinets as you like.

In addition to individual mailbox aliases, cabinets can also contain 'wildcard' items. These items allow you to quickly add the contents of an entire mailbox hierarchy to a cabinet. For example, you might want all of the folders in your INBOX hierarchy to appear in the 'Copy Messages To' cabinet. One way to set this up would be to select all of the folders in your INBOX hierarchy and drag them to the 'Copy Messages To' cabinet. Unfortunately, if you were to then create a new mailbox in your INBOX hierarchy, you would have to remember to also add that new folder to the 'Copy Messages To' cabinet. An elegant solution for this problem is to place a single wildcard entry for the 'INBOX.*' hierarchy into the 'Copy Messages To' cabinet. 'Wildcard' entries are dynamic – every time they are needed, the full list of matching mailboxes is determined and substituted for the 'wildcard' entry. Thus any changes to the mailbox hierarchy will always be picked up by the 'wildcard' entry.

To add a 'wildcard' entry to a cabinet
Click once on the appropriate cabinet and select Cabinets>New Wildcard Item… from the Mailbox menu.

You can modify a wildcard item within a cabinet by clicking once on the wildcard item and selecting Cabinets>Edit Wildcard Item… from the Mailbox menu, or by double-clicking on the wildcard item. A dialog box will appear, allowing you to specify a new path for the wildcard item.

Note The mailbox aliases within a cabinet function in a manner very similar to the actual mailboxes they represent. Double-clicking on a mailbox alias will open a separate mailbox window for the associated mailbox. If you attempt to remove a cabinet item using the Delete… command from the Mailboxes menu, you will be asked whether you want to delete the mailbox alias or the actual mailbox associated with the alias.