How to create email folders

You don't. You have to do it in a desktop email client, or within the webmail interface of your email provider.

Desktop email client, look which one for example? Also would like to be able to create folders using pop3, this is just basic stuff come on Apple!!

If you have an IMAP account then login to the account on a browser and create the extra folder(s) that you want there - they should then be reflected in the Mail app. In terms of POP3 then you can't - that is a limitation of POP3 and has nothing to do with Apple.

You cannot create new folders on the device itself - the software simply cannot do that. You have to make the folders either via a web interface to your mail service, or from a computer with a desktop client. When you access your IMAP mail from the device, it will sync the folders on the IMAP server to it.

For POP3, you are out of luck.

Pop3 is what is required, too many confusing folders with imap. Prefer to continue using pop3, just hope that Apple include this feature in the next release.

How can it be a limitation of POP3? I have a POP3 client on my Windows PC (Outlook) and it let's me create folders for my POP3 mail.

You can create email folders in Mail on the iPad.

It requires that the email be an IMAP account (iCloud, gMail, Yahoo, AOL, etc)

You then need to go to

Mailboxes,

Choose the Account,

Then in the top Right corner

Edit

Then Bottom Right Corner

New Mailbox

Enter a Name, Choose a Location and Save

Then you can move emails to that Mailbox!

Of course there is no problem to create folders in normal e-mail client even for pop3 account. To my understanding this is limitation of iOs e-mail client itself not pop3. iOs e-mail client is simply not designed to store messages on it - it constantly syncs everything and of course it can not sync folders with pop3. iOs e-mail client just needs an option/support for folders not to be synced - but such option obviously is not in compliance with apple's cloud computing/storage concept/strategy - so this is rather Apple marketing/concept limitation.

dickvb wrote:

How can it be a limitation of POP3? I have a POP3 client on my Windows PC (Outlook) and it let's me create folders for my POP3 mail.

It lets you create LOCAL folders on the PC itself, not folders stored on the remote mail server. IMAP folders remain on the remote mail server itself, so they are accessible from any email client you use on any device.

Thanks all.

My ISP and mail server doesn't offer IMAP. So I use POP3. What I want to do is to create a couple of folders on my iPhone4 where I can save some of my incoming messages so they don't fall off the bottom of my inbox and get deleted. Just simple folders like I have in Outlook, not synched or coordinated with anything else.

Well, OK, someone suggested that I can just move these messages to "sent mail", where the iPhone won't delete them. Useful workaround. But why can't Apple just let me create a couple of folders if I'm using POP3?

The App Store offers a number of other mail clients. But all have the same shortcoming, as far as I can see. And the explanation given seems to be that sorry, folders can't be created if you are using POP3, ostensibly because of some design feature of the POP3 protocol. This, it seems to me, is Balderdash. Of course there's nothing in the POP3 protocol that precludes making local folders. Maybe there's something in the developers' arrangements with Apple...

On the ipad, use a gmail account and save the pop3 messages in a folder there..

Bingo, thanks for that. Personally I've alway been more of a fan of IMAP than POP. If set up properly.

I have a pop3 account and the way i do it is:

Go to the original isp site to retrieve your mail. For example if your with AT&T, go to their mail sign in site. If you use currently use outlook on your pc or Mac, you may never retrieve mail from there.

On that site, create the folders just like you do in Outlook. Choose either edit or

The little wheel gear-like icon. You can delete the standard eBay purchase and notes folder which come default on the iPhone/iPad.

Then on your iPhone, the folders will appear and you can file them by choosing "edit" and highlighting multiple emails to be moved into the folders.

Everyone saying the folders can not be "made" on the iPhone/iPad. True. Because they must be made at the mother site where the emails are originating from. Otherwise, you could end up with multiple file systems for the same messages on different devices. Which someone may want , but for most it'd be super confusing.

I understand all the answers given here and am happy to use imap when at home as I'm always connected but seems so limited that I can't choose to store emails locally in a separate folder to access when no online. Seems like the whole concept is designed around those poeple (US,UK etc) who have unlimited internet access at home and outside. When travelling overseas, I don't have internet access except occasional wireless to access emails but then want to be able to read and access them offline which you can't do with imap. I want to be able to keep hotel and flight confirmation booking emails without having to be connected to read them. Perhaps Apple could consider this - after all the macbook email client has this feature. Apple, don't assume everyone is constantly connected!

Will this work in Apple Mail! With cox communications as the ISP.