It's really easy to establish a set of subfolders under your Inbox in
T-Bird, then filter the messages using the subject line or whatever
criterion you choose. Then you can also establish storage folders in
Local Folders, and back those up to CD from time to time. I haven't
figured out yet how to restore the backed-up email files in T-Bird, but
I can open any message I please using the MailViewer app that Peter
recently told us about.
Joyce in SE Ohio
PS Firefox is the Mozilla Web browser... I use it instead of Internet
Explorer. There are a few glitches, such as not being able to load a
Web page on the first try, but IMHO Firefox has it all _over_ IE...
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> The multiple suggestions in favor of Thunderbird over I-Net Explorer (do I have those right?) are quite persuasive. I may, however, gotten myself into such a horrendous mess that some rash move is required--
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> I'm on far too many mailing lists. Great quantities of mail arrive (not all spam). Over a long, long period, I've allowed far too much to pile up in the inbox. From time to time, I cull -- but far too little is removed. And I haven't established a rational system for classifying and storing. From time to time, I've determined that "I'll want to get at that one more carefully, but later. There isn't time right now." And I've sometimes flagged the message, sometimes marked it to "appear unread" (thus to show up bold in the list).
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> Plainly dumb.
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> The question: If I try to shift to the new system, will I thereby lose access to all that old traffic? Must I seek some way to move it all to a CD somehow? Or am I called on simply to dump it all and start with a new person? Any compassionate suggestions? ---ed
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> Ed Nelson (from Chicago's southmost suburbs)
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