Information Technology Reference
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Figure 1:
On the left, Mail's special mailboxes as they appear with only
one account enabled. On the right, the same mailboxes with three ac-
counts enabled; in this example, Inbox and Archive are expanded to show
the individual account mailboxes inside. (If you have any flagged mes-
sages, a Flagged item appears in this list. If you have any VIPs configured,
you'll also see a VIPs item.)
One reason these mailboxes are special is that Mail automatically stores messages in them
when you take certain actions (such as sending or deleting mail).
Another thing that makes these mailboxes special is that they are all
unified
in OS X, which
is to say that if you have multiple server-based accounts set up, each special mailbox acts as a
folder of sorts for each individual account's mailboxes of that type—click the triangle next to
Sent, for example, and you'll see each account's Sent mailbox listed underneath. (The Inbox
is always unified, even for POP accounts.) If you select the topmost (unified) icon for any of
the special mailboxes, you'll display, to the right, all the messages for that type of mailbox in
all your accounts; select an individual account in any special mailbox category to see just the
messages for that account.
