Stephen writes, <Glad you like it. One thing you do have to be careful about is letting your Inbox get too big. I'm an email pack rat too, I still have some here from back in the 80's. And a pile that were converted from Rmail in Emacs on Solaris. Anyways, I just helped a user at work because her Tbird crashed - her Inbox just reached 4GB(!!!) so you probably have a ways to go! My Inbox right now is at 1419 messages.......>
Oh cool, another Tbird user who is also an email pack rat! No, I don't keep ABSOLUTELY EVERY SINGLE EMAIL I get, though. What I keep is: anything with valuable pertinent info I either need or think I'll need, as well as personal correspondence. Take my Macintosh folder as an example, which has subfolders for every LEM list I've ever been on plus a few folders for offlist LEM-Lister correspondences I've had: in addition to saving my own posts/people's replies, if someone ELSE posts a question to a list pertinent to a Mac I own or the OS I'm using whether it applies right now or not or I think I might need the info later on, I save it. I also save not only my own Swap List correspondence/transactions, but also all good/bad seller Swap List Feedback. Whenever I want to buy something on the Swap List and off the top of my head I don't "know" the seller, I look him/her up in my list! Now I know I COULD get rid of the subfolders for lists I'm not on anymore, but that's the "pack rat" in me: I don't want to! As for correspondence: I keep both ends -- if I answer an email, I keep both the one I received plus my reply. About 75% of my personal correspondence is of the "brainstorming" and "troubleshooting" variety (yes, even my non-Mac interests, which include microbiology, rat medical care, detailed writers' worldbuilding/critique group memberships/story exchanges, and, for the past three years, Sims gaming/modding/hacking). As to the 25% of my non-Mac-related email which is purely social type personal correspondence, I keep that because it's FUN, several years later, to go back and read some of that stuff (even from people I'm no longer in contact with) -- and some is sentimental (emails from/to my boyfriend: the modern equivalent of "love letters" I guess). None of this goes all the way back to the 80s though, but that's only because I didn't get my first computer (Mac Performa 475, OS 7.5.3) until 1995! Thank you for the tips about keeping my Tbird inbox clean, but I'm not just an email pack rat, I'm OCD about it (and the way I keep my Macs) in terms of being Supremely Organized -- if only I would trouble to keep my APARTMENT like I keep the contents of my Macs! Talk about a study in contrasts, though! I would have to go out of town for several days to a week (WITHOUT my iBook, that is, which ain't happenin'!) for 1419 emails to even have a chance to pile up on my ISP's mailserver. As it is, email gets checked several times a day. Of everything that comes in necessitating a reply, 80% gets same day attention -- the rest within 2-4 days. In Claris Emailer I set it up so that once I read an email from the inbox, it would automatically shunt over to a box called Read Mail. I dunno if Tbird does that yet (I couldn't find anything, but then again I'm still new to it), so for the time being I made my own Read Mail folder, so after I read my email from the Tbird inbox, I kick it over to Read Mail manually. That's one of the pains in the neck, but that does get it out of the inbox...and maybe I'll be able to make Tbird do it instead of me having to do it. Well anyway, in CE, once a week I'd go through the Read Mail and Sent Mail folders, switch the view to Date to From/To (which is Sender in Tbird, which does have a Sent folder at least), and file all the email to appropriate personal folders (I love the way my imported mail was handled by Tbird: not only can I do the filing in Tbird just like I did in CE, but I have it all in a main "Personal Logs" folder which I can flippy triangle up so it looks nice and neat!). So far on Tbird I've been filing daily, only because I still have yet to develop a "system" for OCD Email Handling. Then again I did say I'm still in the "adjustment phase' with it. Probably I should just break down and go to the Tbird web site or click the Help, and see if I can find some kind of user manual pdf of sorts, rather than keep on poking through mysteriously on my own like I've been doing. I'm still on the G4 -- I guess I should finish up my Morning Coffee email, flash drive Tbird update over to the iBook (to include this and last night's emails), and make sure Tbird actually does send/receive email from my ISP on Tbird as well as it's doing on the G4 so far. ~Yersinia. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed Low End Mac's G3-5 List, a group for those using G3, G4, and G5 desktop Macs - with a particular focus on Power Macs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/lists/g-list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/g3-5-list?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
