Re: email choice

["Patricia M. Godfrey" PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx]

Judith Davidsen wrote:
> Does this mean you just get to choose the drive, or that you can
> set the program to automatically place your email in any folder
> you want, rather than in some sub-sub-sub-sub-sub-subfolder in
> Documents & Settings that takes half an hour to access in Xy?
Well, you get to choose the drive and the top-level folder, but then it
does get nastily nested. Mine gets stored in
E:\EMAIL\Eskimo\Mail\Local Folders\
The Eskimo level is unnecessary; I periodically copy my Juno e-mails to
another subfolder named Juno, because Juno itself insists on keeping
them on C:. If you're not worrying about another e-mail app, all you'd
need is EMAIL\Mail\Local Folder (I think Tbird creates the last 2).
The Eskimo subfolder has a set of sub-subfolders named Drafts.sbd,
Inbox.sbd, Sent.sbd, Trash.sbd, and unsent messages.sbd. BUT then right
in Local Folders are a set of files namd Drafts, Inbox, etc., which seem
to actaully consist of all the posts in that category, in one big file;
plus a series of files with the same name and the extension .msf, which
seem to be indexes to the "real" files.
Of course, what I do is open my mail when I get it, and copy and paste
to a Xy file, open in Xy, in which I store all that month's posts, so I
have them on my own hard drive for reference. So what happens to the
original e-mails is of less concern. (I haven't given this adddress out
to anyone but this list; too many correspondents elsewhere use Outtaluck
and MSN, from which it could be harvested by bots.)

Patricia M. Godfrey