Rostyslaw Lewyckyj wrote: > Peter Potamus the Purple Hippo wrote: >> Leonidas Jones wrote: >>> terje wrote: > ........... Big snip. .................. > and introducing an OFF TOPIC thread drift question >>> >>> Basically, do not use Inbox as a long term repository for stored email. >>> If you need to keep email, store it in archive folders. >>> >>> Lee >> >> I would have to disagree with you on that Lee. That might have been a >> problem in the old Netscape days, but its not now. I've had stuff in >> my inbox for years, and never had a problem. Then again, my inbox >> isn't over 2 gigs big either. But I do have other folders that are >> about that big and still don't have problems. >> > To: Terje and Peter > Are there any reasons why you are maintaining such a large Inbox, > with such a large collection of, what must be, an arbitrary mixture > of messages, rather than as Lee and common sense logic would advise, > classifying the messages by some criterion and moving them into > separate folders. > A simple criterion might be by date! : Old-inbox-1998, Old-inbox-1999, > ... etc.
Both at home and on work I build up the Inbox (and Sent) as a mail correspondense archieve and knowledge database. That is keep messages and correspondence that may be of my future interest. Of course other things are deleted and cleaned up. Attachments (especially the large ones) are archieved in other project archieves or other places outside the Inbox. Larger projects may go over several years. Finding interesting web pages searhing the web (articles etc) it's easy to right click and Send Page (link) to myself. Such use the mail system as a long term bookmark archieve. And I also use the mail as an appointment reminder for myself this way. The main reason is the mail system is easy to filter and search through. By the end of the month, it's easy to find what has happened on each project, or search for an old message several years back. Now it looks like I have to split the Inbox in subfolders or some archieve, but I haven't seen if the filter and search function works for more than one folder a time. The Novell GroupWise mail server we now use on job, has a very fast full text index search and also offer webaccess client. Beside this we are planning to use team...@conferencsing. But SM still can be used as an IMAP mail client frontend beside and has still some benefits. Terje _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
