Here are two different ways. Which one to use depends on how often
you will want to archive your mail and refer to the messages.
1. A separate account:
A. Create a new account. Go into Options/Network & Administration.
B. Go into the Groups tab. Create a group comprising your current
account(s) and also the new, archive account.
C. Go into the Privileges tab, and determine which user will be the
Administrator. It probably should be your primary account.
D. In the archive account, set up the folders that make sense to
your archive purposes. It may not be the same structure you use in
your daily account.
E. While you are logged in as the group_name which includes the archive
account, set up filters (Account/Sorting Office/Filters)
under your primary account so that the messages you'll want to
archive get filtered *manually* to the archive_account in the appropriate
folders.
Now, on a regular basis, just log in as your primary, daily
account. When you want to archive or retrieve archives, log in as
the group_name which includes the archive account. To archive,
manually run the filters. (Select the folders containing the
messages to archive, right-click, select to refilter and choose
manual.) To retrieve, just go into the appropriate folder. If
you want to reply to an archived message, you can even choose
to have your "From" line reflect your primary, i.e., daily
account.
2. Using common folders:
This is a variation on the preceding configuration. It does not
achieve the goal of having your archive folders not load with TB!,
but it is simpler than the preceding method, because it doesn't
involve the use of groups. (It does, however, require the use of
TB! ver. 1.60x.)
A. Create one or more common folders for your archive purposes.
You can create subfolders within the common folder (Folder/New,
with the highlight on the parent folder.)
B. Set up filters, also to operate manually.
C. Log in the same way you do normally, and run the archive
filters whenever you want. Similarly, the archived messages will
be available whenever you want.
HTH.
[BTW, for anyone else still reading this, this message is a perfect
example of one for which enriched text composition capabilities are
not necessary but would be really, really helpful....]
JN
Paul Shave wrote on Saturday, May 04, 2002:
JN>> A variation on that is to move the messages to a separate set of
JN>> folders, perhaps with a different user name. That way, they would
JN>> remain in the .TBB format, but not be on your screen or available all
JN>> the time.
> That looks like the best one for me - how would I actually do that,
> and how could I refer back to the archived messages?
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