On 10 Aug 2006 19:21:20 GMT, badgolferman wrote:

John Brown, 8/10/2006, 3:13:24 PM,
wrote:

Am adding quite a few sub folders under Inbox folder and using Rules
to direct incoming mail to the appropriate sub folders. I wonder if
that's the best way..or is it better to create sub folders under
Local Folders?... ...thinking which would be best to avoid bloating
and hence slowing OE down in the future? Cheers, J

Add under Local Folders. Inbox is the most written to .dbx file and
henceforth the most suceptible to corruption.

But user created folders under the Inbox aren't a part of the Inbox.dbx
file. Rather, the newly creaed folder becomes a new .dbx file. If you
create a folder under the Inbox called, "Today", you will get a new file
in the message store, "today.dbx".

Another file, folders.dbx, tracks where the newly created folders go. If
you delete the folders.dbx file, you lose the tree structure of your
folders; the user-created folders will show up in a flat structure. You
would have to re-structure the tree, which will create a new folders.dbx
file.

P.S.: If you already have a "Today" folder, the new "Today" folder will
have the file name, "today(1).dbx".

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Norman
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