[email protected] wrote: > 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. > > > > Now that you have it going, and your excitement is so genuine, I can lead you onto some great stuff out there. Like Firefox, Thunderbird has loads of plugins. Did you know that there is a plugin, for example, that you could use to send e-Mails that has the same content. Say, for instance, you're responding with the same information all the time. All you do is enter the person's e-Mail address, clip and insert the text you'd entered in the plugin, hit send, and you're done. There are plenty great plugins. Let me know if you need tips.
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