On Monday, January 21, 2002 4:36:03 PM, Dierk Haasis wrote: >> What is good strategy for handling folders of incoming and sent >> messages? Is it a good idea to put sent messages in the same >> folder with incoming mail? What about setting up inbox and sent >> sub-folders for each mail folder (seems very complicated and >> does not really solve the problem of seeing sent messages with >> corresponding reply). Any suggestions?
> It depends on your needs. If you want mails for the same subject > sorted together make a folder for it and one filter for incoming and > one for outgoing mail to put all mails for this subject into that > folder. > Example: The Bat! Mailinglists. To archive *every* mail > concerning TB! ML's make a folder "TB!" and filter all TB! ML > mails into it. > I for my part delete most mails I send after a few days automatically > by setting the Sent Mail folder to delete mails after 2 days. > I won't send you a PNG of my setup through the list for obvious > reasons but if you think it would help you I can send it off-list. > Another thing, It is not difficult to create sub-folders, but I do not > recommend it for the "System" folders (Inbox, Outbox, Sent Mail and > Trash). Why not? I've made sub-folders in the Sent Mail folder for the addresses I use regularly. The rest just remains in the main SM folder (I could of course also put them in a sub-folder 'miscellaneous'). I have at the moment 2250 messages in my SM folder, with 31 sub-folders, so that my sent messages are now neatly ordered. With this structure I can still easily search all my sent messages. I've also made sub-folders in my Trash folder, while I keep all messages for several reasons. If there are too many messages in it, I move the content to a special trash account (with sub-folders) on another disk. Peter Smitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.xs4all.nl/~psmitt http://www.fine-art.com/psmitt -- ________________________________________________________ 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
