The Email application uses the following "system" folders: Inbox, Saved, Drafts, Sent, Junk, and Trash. The folders are shown in the illustration below: You cannot discard or edit the names of the system folders (Inbox, Saved, Sent, Drafts, Junk, and Trash), but you can name the folders you create. Here's a little more information about each system folder:

• Inbox - The Inbox folder is the default drop point for any new messages you receive. Note that you can specify that messages from external accounts be dropped into folders you create.
• Sent - As you send an email message, the message is displayed in the Sent folder (expanded view), with its status just to the left. Status indicators show which message is being sent ( ), which messages are waiting to be sent ( ), and which messages were not sent due to a delivery problem ( ).

After a message has been sent, it disappears from the Sent folder, unless you specify in the Email Settings screen that you want to Save outgoing messages in Sent folder. If you've set this preference, a copy of every message you compose and send will be saved in the Sent folder.

• Saved - If you have specified (in Email Settings) to have the system automatically discard messages when your mailbox is full (oldest first), you can "save" messages from this auto-deletion process by moving them to this Saved folder.
• Drafts - If you start composing a message but want to pause in writing it or wait to send it, then you can save the message in the Drafts folder and later open it and continue. Note that messages in the Drafts folder are protected from the auto-deletion process.
• Junk - If your wireless operator offers this feature and if you have Junk Mail filtering turned on (from the Desktop Interface > Email > Settings > Message Management page), then a Junk folder will appear in your list of folders to hold the incoming junk mail. Note that messages received from contacts in your Address Book are never routed as junk mail.
• Trash - Every message you discard from other folders is moved to the Trash folder. Discarded messages accumulate in the Trash until you explicitly use the menu option to Empty Trash. As long as a message stays in the Trash, however, you can restore it to another folder.

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