Version 1, changed by RussLipton. 04/21/2005. Show version history
Checking your InBox
Topic: locate and manage emails that were sent incorrectly to your wiki.
1. The InBox is a system page created to store emails which have been sent to your JotSpot account but to non-existent (or mis-spelled) page titles. JotSpot creates the InBox pages the first time an errant email is sent.
You can find the InBox page by entering the word 'InBox' into your wiki's Search Box; by looking for it in the Index page; or by looking for it in the Recent Changes page. If no emails have been mis-addressed then the InBox page will not be found in your wiki and searching for InBox will not return any results.
Here, we show what might appear after you have found the InBox:
Note: You may leave the default text of the InBox page as-it-is ("Your inbox!" as shown above). Alternatively, you may edit the InBox page text at any time just as you would edit any wiki page.
2. The screen shot above (Step 1) shows two messages which have been attached to the wiki. The first one (Sending Email to Create a Page) was intentional - we really wanted to create a page in the wiki with the title submitted in that email's TO: field (NewWikiPage). The email generated this page:
The second one (New Stuff for my wiki) also generated a new page. JotSpot could not match the title of the email's To: field (SomePage) to a currently saved page:
Since JotSpot assumed we really did want to create a new page, we now find SomePage in our wiki as well:
3. We did want to send the first page to our wiki but we really didn't want to send SomePage to the wiki. It may be that we slightly mis-spelled that page. Perhaps, we intended to send it to Some1Page. Or, we thought that we wanted to create a new page but have now decided it shouldn't appear in our wiki.
Either way, we can easily delete SomePage by clicking Delete to the right of the page title listing in the InBox:
This displays a standard JotSpot confirmation dialog to make sure we do want to delete our page:
After we click the Yes, delete button, we can navigate back to our InBox. This shows that the page was indeed deleted from the wiki:
JotSpot maintains a small collection of System Pages that work for you behind the scenes. The InBox is a System Page. They are not ordinarily viewable unless, like the InBox, they offer features beneficial for you to manage directly.
Your WikiHome page is the 'root' or parent of all other pages in your wiki. Any new wiki page (including those created from email) takes its path from WikiHome. These are subpages of WikiHome.
Most pages can themselves have subpages. However, JotSpot has no special information from you which would enable an email-attached page to be assigned elsewhere. The pages displayed in your InBox are subpages of the InBox as well as of WikiHome. In other words, these pages have two 'parent' pages and no subpages of their own.
The InBox logs all messages which do not contain the name of an existing wiki page. JotSpot always creates a new wiki page when it cannot match the page you sent by email with a page that has already been saved to your wiki.
When a mis-addressed or mis-spelled page is deleted from the InBox, you will not be able to follow a breadcrumb back to the InBox (you may want to reconfirm to yourself that the page was deleted). The InBox is no longer a shared parent with WikiHome of that (deleted) page. Instead, the breadcrumb leads back to WikiHome.
You can always find your InBox through Search, Index or Recent Changes to verify actions taken there.
JotSpot creates the InBox page upon receipt of the first email which does not match an existing page. Once crated, it is never deleted by JotSpot.
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