Hi Bob, @23-Oct-2003, 13:42 +1000 (04:42 UK time) Bob Morris said to Marck:
>> I strongly recommend to *everyone* here not to use an account >> inbox as a mail store - get those messages into other folders >> now. Instate a filter set to keep the inbox empty. > <snipped> > Can you also clarify your advice regarding not storing mail in the > Inbox? ... <snip> > If I move the received mail into another folder as it is received > and read won't this: > (a) cause the Bat! to have problems with threading once again as > newly received mail is in the Inbox and previous mail in the > thread is stored elsewhere, and No - if no messages are stored in the inbox and all messages are moved to a TBUDL folder by a filter as they arrive then all threading will remain intact and the inbox will remain empty. > (b) the new folder will be subject to exactly the same pressures > with exactly the same amount of mail passing through and stored in > it - i.e. from Inbox - hold 31 days - Delete old mail and compress > on each exit? An inbox has different pressures than a mail storage folder. It is used as a transit for any messages to that address. Albeit, the entire account in this instance is dedicated to TBUDL, but the principal remains that an Inbox does have different pressures from a mail storage folder. -- Cheers -- .\\arck D Pearlstone -- List moderator SB! v2.01.2 on Windows XP 5.1.2600 Service Pack 1 '
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