10-20-16 10:56 mark lewis wrote to Holger Granholm about Free programs
Howdy! Mark,

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 ml> 19 Oct 16 09:26, you wrote to Ed Vance:

 EV>> I had one big problem with Thunderbird when several thousand messages
 EV>> in the In-Box got cleared out after I compacted TB.

 HG> I never leave any amount of messages in the InBox. The most I've had
 HG> there where over 1700, after my ISP account had been idle four years,
 HG> but they were quickly cleared out. Now there are less than 10.

 ml> i use the filters prodigiously... when the emails come in, they are
 ml> shuffled off to their own folders... then i just use the "next unread
 ml> message" button at the top of the screen to go through them... emails
 ml> without filters remain in the inbox until i either create a filter and
 ml> folder for them or i delete them... so what if there's a bunch in there
 ml> and they've all been read... it is the unread ones that matter ;) ;) ;)

Thanks for the idea.
I've never tried learning how to use filters in TB.
It is TB that You're speaking of, isn't it?

I am one who will re-read Emails (and BBS messages I've saved).

One big reason I like reading BBS messages is the people who know this
stuff and know how to explain it to unlearned guys like me, let me get an
EDucation.

Thanks, and Thanks to all others here.



... I just did a week's worth of cardio after walking into a spider web.
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