[thelist] Outlook Express woes

[Ed McCarroll]

I use Outlook 2000, and keep hundreds of messages (42 MB) in my .PST
file full of several dozen email folders.  So I guess, if folder size is
the issue, you might find a better Outlook.  After all, if you're gonna
use Microsoft software, you might as well use their best  ;-)

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> Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 5:45 PM
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> Subject: Re: [thelist] Outlook Express woes
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>
> > It's better to answer your mail quickly if possible
> > and then file it somewhere else IMHO.
>
> hi mark
>
> that could be the start of an interesting thread, if somewhat
> off-topic for
> web development (file by subject, by correspondent, by date, etc.)
>
> > The email folders only hold so much if I recall and if you add
> > more the overflow has to go somewhere.
>
> that might be a problem, i guess, but i haven't hit it yet
>
> my outlook express directory, which contains "folders" (each
> consisting of
> an mbx and idx file, for mailbox and index respectively), is
> over 400 megs,
> and i'm using outlook express 4 (came with ie4) on win95
>
> > Cleaning out your deleted items folder might help too.
>
> indeed
>
> probably the best advice, especially if you have lots of
> folders, is to run
> the Compact All Folders option regularly
>
> the only problem i have is that i'd like to offload a lot of
> stuff, which
> is easy enough to do (just move the mbx/idx files out of the
> directory),
> but then what do you read them with? bringing them back in to
> find some old
> email is hard, 'cause they're all named folder191.mbx and so
> on, so you
> pretty much have to have a cheat sheet -- blecch
>
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> rudy
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