John wrote:
I've been using SeaMonkey, and before that the Mozilla Suite and
Netscape for email for over 10 years. I have my "inbox" contents sorted
into numerous sub-folders. I keep most non-spam emails indefinitely for
future reference. I estimate that I currently have over 30,000 messages
in these folders. There are over 10,000 messages in my "sent" folder.
Is there any specific limit to the number of messages I can save in this
manner? Is there any way of moving older messages to a different
location so they don't have to be loaded every time I start the program
and still have the ability to easily search and read them when necessary?
What I want to avoid is a sudden crash caused by too many messages which
would cause me to lose everything. (I do backup these folders on a
regular basis). Thanks!
I found that Mozilla got cranky when the Inbox itself had a lot of
messages in it, so I've gotten in the habit of keeping it pretty small
(say a coupla hundred messages) and saving messages elsewhere (not in
subfolders of Inbox, but in folders at the same level). E.g.,
Inbox
Sent
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
...
Received
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
...
where "Received" contains old incoming messages.
You also want to periodically compact folders in Mozilla or SeaMonkey --
messages aren't actually deleted until you compact folders. Until then,
they sit there marked for deletion, invisible to you but taking up
computer disk space and brainpower.
As with all computer data, "if you love me, back me up." If you're
keeping all that data on your computer and crossing your fingers for
protection, you're begging for trouble.
--
War doesn't determine who's right, just who's left.
--
Paul B. Gallagher
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