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Inbox is an easily recognisable term, which is part and
parcel of electronic mail. The inbox is the area of an email
client - or webmail client - which stores and indexes the
received messages for any given user.
The menu of an inbox for email and webmail clients usually
provides the following,
- Clip logo - shows whether or not the message has an attachment
- Reply status - indicates whether or not the email message
has been replied too.
- From - who the message is from: this is rarely the email
address of the sender, but their actual name, or the name
of the company sending the email.
- Subject - a brief outline which describes what the email
message is about.
- Date - displays when the message was sent, or when the
message was received.
- Size - shows the size of the message, either kilobytes
for small emails or megabytes for larger ones.
The email messages in an inbox are by default listed by the
date sent: with the newest at the top and the oldest at the
bottom. Email messages which have not been read are usually
displayed in bold text, whereas an email message which has
been read is displayed in standard non-bold text.
Due to the amount of email messages sent which were not requested
or desired by a user, email clients have expanded their inbox
to contain a spam folder. Spam filters are not always reliable,
and email messages which should have arrived in the inbox
are filtered into the spam folder, and vice versa.
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