Larry S. wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
Paul B. Gallagher wrote:
Larry S. wrote:
To summarize, there is only one profile. All the Mail folders are in
the profile when I look at its contents, but only one shows up in the
Accounts pane in Mail/News. How do I get the others to appear as
well?
"Only one shows up" -- one account or one folder?
Opening the profile I see, among other files and folders, a Mail folder.
That in turn opens to show three Mail folders, one for my current ISP
mail account, and (now) two for my former ISP mail account. Only one
account shows up in the Account pane, the one for the current ISP.
If I understand you correctly, you have only one ISP and one open
account, so it wouldn't make sense to create a "new account" for your
now-invalid old accounts with former ISPs.
But it's perfectly reasonable and feasible to drag and drop your old
mail messages and folders into the current account and file them as you
see fit. Then you can delete the empty mail folders you've left behind,
using the "Del" key.
If you have filters that direct incoming mail to the folders you're
moving, they will be automatically adjusted to point to the new
locations. If you have filters that direct incoming mail to folders
you're deleting, SM will prompt you to fix them. The only way I can see
incoming messages landing in the Verizon folders is if you have filters
sending them there, since the account is closed and you're no longer
retrieving mail from that ISP.
In theory, if we were sitting here three years ago planning the
transition, I'd tell you to simply modify the Verizon account with the
new data, instead of creating a new account. But if there was a period
of overlap when both accounts were open, there would've been no way to
avoid having two accounts. Otherwise you couldn't retrieve mail from
both.
Can I just copy the Verizon folder and paste it into (on?) the FairPoint
folder (current ISP) without overwriting the FP contents? Would all the
contents just go into the FP folder, or would it create a Verizon folder
within the FP folder? Or should I (how would I) I move the contents to
the FP folder without copying the Verizon folder? (There isn't a nice
listing of the V folder's contents.)
Depends if you're working within SM or in Windows Explorer.
The general principle with Windows Explorer is that if it finds matching
file or folder names, it'll prompt you to overwrite or cancel. If you
choose overwrite for matching /folder/ names, it will then overwrite any
matching files within the target folder, including subfolders. So
there's a potential to damage existing file folders if you overwrite.
I recommend doing this type of file maintenance within SeaMonkey
whenever possible because it's easier to manage individual messages. You
can select some or all of the contents of one folder and drag and drop
it/them into another folder. The usual shortcuts apply: CTRL-A selects
all; click... SHIFT-click selects a range of consecutive messages;
click... CTRL-click selects two messages regardless of their order in
the list; etc. In general, if you drag a folder onto another folder,
it'll create a subfolder, but if you drag it onto the parent of a
similarly named folder, you'll overwrite the target (I don't recall if
it prompts you).
Another advantage of working within SM is that you do have a "nice
listing of the V folder's contents."
HTH
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Paul B. Gallagher
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