Hi david, >Some of my mail folders seem to be getting big and Powermail slowing >down. I'd like to archive some mail away but not sure the best way. For >example I have one mail folder with over 11,000 messages. I want to keep >them all. How do I filter out the messages by year - for example. If >that's a good plan. I'd like to have all my messages to hand but only >really need this years in my folder list. I'm not sure if I'm being >clear. Perhaps other people can tell me what they do.
I'm a new PowerMail user, but I've imported my Emailer database which I've been using since 1997. My biggest folder is typically my Sent Mail folder, since I save pretty much everything I ever send. What I've done is set up an 'archive' within the PowerMail database. I have a folder called 'Email Archives' and within that folder I have subfolders that each hold two months worth of email, typically between 500 and 1000 messages. The folders are named by their date range so they appear in order (for instance, email from January/February 2003 is in a folder named 2003_01_02). I create and populate these manually, by selecting messages from Sent Mail and dragging them to their archive folder. I typically keep between 4 and 8 months worth of email in Sent Mail, and move stuff to the archive folders 3 or 4 times a year. It can sometimes be a hassle finding old stuff if I don't know precisely when it was sent, but PM lets me search in selected folders, so it's not too bad. hth Jim -- Jim Pistrang JP Computer Resources 413-256-4569 http://users.crocker.com/~pistrang
