I wasn't going to reply to this post (so pardon the lack of threading), but after reading the good responses that have come in so far I've decided to add one thought.
Organizing your mail should be viewed in three dimensions not just two. In other words, how you organize your folders and filters is important, and it keeps your desired structure in place in TB! when you are using the program. But you can adopt a different type of organizing strategy for archiving email outside the program. That is the "third dimension" I noted. For example, I have some topical folders, such as relating to particular clients, or "social," or family, etc. Some mail is filtered into them automatically. Some I have to move in manually, either because I haven't set up the many filters necessary or because I need to take an unrelated step (timekeeping) before moving the message out of plain sight. But all of that is slightly different from the archiving strategy I use. Once I decide that it is unlikely I will need to refer to a message on a frequent basis, I archive them. Client-related messages are grouped by client; mailing list messages that I've decided to retain (not that I'll really ever look at them again....) are *all* grouped together; and miscellaneous messages, whether social or family or whatever, that I need to retain are, again, all grouped together. The idea there is that I can search as necessary for what I need. I'd guess that no two people use the same organizing and archiving strategies. It just depends too much on what you do and how you do it. But my point in all of this is just to suggest that you consider not only your needs now, i.e., the moving of messages within TB!, but also your needs later, i.e., archiving organization. JN -- ________________________________________________________ Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Latest Vers: 1.53d FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com
