28.02.2003 17:44 UhrAllan Athertonaatherton at insightbb.com: > Marta Edie <mledie at insightbb.com> >> ... let's say i do want to know all the junk I have written and all the >> wisdom >> I have received within the last few years, where is all this stored and where >> can I find it, reread it, save it or delete it totally , if not through the >> identity folder? It must be somewhere on the disk... > > It is all in the Main Identity folder, in the Database file. Take a look at > the size of it. If you want to *view* what is actually in that big file, > just look at your Mail window. That's the window that you see every time you > open OE. > > As to where to look in your Mail window, if you have not organized your mail > into new folders, and if you have not made any rules for handling mail, then > all your mail must come into your Inbox and stay there until you delete it. > When you delete it, it goes into Deleted Items and stays there until you > delete it again. And if the right preference has been checked, there will be > a copy of every message you ever sent in your Sent Items folder. So look at > Inbox, Sent Items, and Deleted Items. > > In any case, all the mail that you have ever received or sent, and that has > not been deleted, is visible in the folders down the left side of the Mail > window. > > Allan Atherton > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
Thanks, Allan. That is all very fine. I have got that mail window all organdized ( as Winnie the Pooh would say) and have folders and subfolders for all kinds of categories. The one on technology has three subfolders for all the different subjects all you MacWise people write about. My sent mail window is already so long, it takes forever to come to an end. I thought I might be able to , at one time or another, when the mailflood became too large, save a year's or so mail in a folder somewhere on my disk. I also hoped I could back up the whole Chose on another disk for safekeeping in case of a crash, or I could transfer the mail into another mailprogram ( for instance when I change over to OSX ). I have been permanantly deleting a number of messages out of my deleted messages folder, because that alone had become unmanageable already and I only have been using this program for a few weeks. What it looks to me now, though, I probably would have to save individual letters ,as they are open ,into specified folders outside the mail program. That could be done, of course, but I had hoped I could save me that added step. Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be March 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
