1) There's no particular harm in leaving it there. The risk of
corruption occurs when updating the folder. If you aren't adding,
moving, deleting messages in the folder, then it's not getting updated.
Likewise, there's some risk of corruption during the compacting process.
But since you aren't updating the folder, the process will quickly skip
over the folder when it finds there is nothing that needs to be done.
Of course you are regularly backing up your whole message store so that
in the unlikely event of some corruption, you can recover, aren't you?.
2) The corruption of the Outbox folder is the only one that could cause
problems in the recipients getting their messages. Corruption in the
Sent Items could cause a couple of problems. If OE is unable to move
the message from the Outbox to the Sent Items after successfully
sending, the message could get stuck in the Outbox and be sent
repeatedly. So they would get multiple copies of the message rather
than none. The other issue would be that messages get lost in the Sent
Items. In that case, you won't be able to find your copy of sent
messages. But that's after the fact as far as sending.
As for receiving, the Inbox corruption could cause lose of incoming
messages. The Sent Items would have no effect on incoming messages.
--
Mike -
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"johnnie2130" wrote in message
...
I created another file and moved my Sent Items e-mails to the new
folder. Two
questions:
1 - You're saying that it's fine to leave the e-mails in the newly
created
folder even if there's thousands of e-mails in it? Is that correct?
2 - If I had tons of e-mail in my sent items folder (which I did),
would
that affect my sending and receiving e-mails? I've had several people
tell me
they didn't get something I sent them and I don't think I'm receiving
all
e-mails either. I called Bellsouth and they said everything looked OK
to
them. Would a full Sent Items folder affect me sending and receiving
e-mails?
I know it's a question for Bellsouth, but I wanted opinions from here
too.
Thanks
"Michael Santovec" wrote:
First create a new folder in OE under Local Folders. That is, click
on
Local Folders in the folder list, the File, New, Folder. Give it a
name
of your choice.
Then drag desired messages from the Sent Items folder to the new
folder.
You want to do a File, Folder Compact on the Sent Items folder (or
all
folders) to recover the disk space from the moved messages.
There's no particular need to move the new folder out of OE unless
the
drive where the OE store folder is located is too full and you have
another drive to move it to.
If you want to move it, look at Tools, Options, Maintenance, Store
Folder for the location of the DBX files. Move the file with OE
closed.
To bring the DBX file back into OE, see:
How to import a single mail folder (*.dbx)
http://www.insideoe.com/faqs/how.htm#importdbx
For an alternate description, see the last paragraph he
http://www.oehelp.com/backup.aspx
--
Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm
"johnnie2130" wrote in
message
...
I think I have way too much in my Sent Items folder. I want to save
most of
these e-mails though. How can I move my e-mails from my Sent Items
folder to
a folder with a .dbx extension so I can add them back to an OE
folder
at a
later date when I want to view them in OE? This folder would be on
my
hard
drive at a location I choose. If you described it below I just
didn't
understand. Thanks.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Then you have two options:
1. Drag individual messages (EML files) from OE to the Windows
folder.
Double-click on an EML file to open it in OE.
Drawback: All messages in a "conversation" will have the same
name.
2. Move all of the messages you want to archive to a new OE folder
you
created for this purpose; let's say you name the folder, e.g.,
"MessagesFromMom".
3. Create a new identity (File | Identities | Add new identity).
4. Import the DBX file associated with the folder you created in
#2
above
(e.g., MessagesFromMom.dbx) into the new identity.
=================================
General OE Caveats:
- Don't use Inbox or Sent Items to archive messages. Move them to
local
folders created for this purpose.
- Empty Deleted Items folder daily.
- Disable Background Compacting [removed in WinXP SP2] and
frequently
perform a manual compact of all OE folders while "working
offline".
More at
http://www.insideoe.com/files/maintain.htm
- WinXP SP2 only: Do not cancel Automatic Compacting, should it
occur, and
do not attempt to close OE via Task Manager or shutdown your
machine
if
Automatic Compacting is taking place.
- Disable email scanning by your anti-virus application. It can
cause
corruption (i.e., loss of messages), it provides no additional
protection,
and even Symantec says it's not necessary:
QP
Disabling Email Scanning does not leave you unprotected against
viruses that
are distributed as email attachments. Norton AntiVirus
Auto-Protect
scans
incoming files as they are saved to your hard drive, including
email
and
email attachments. Email Scanning is just another layer on top of
this. To
make sure that Auto-Protect is providing the maximum protection,
keep
Auto-Protect enabled and run LiveUpdate regularly to ensure that
you
have
the most recent virus definitions.
/QP
http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT...02111812533106
--
~PA Bear
johnnie2130 wrote:
I want to be able to open them later if I choose to for old
times
sake
although that likely wouldn't be very often.
"PA Bear [MS MVP]" wrote:
Do you need to be able to open these archived messages for
reference or
do
you just want to save them for old times sake?
--
~Robear Dyer (PA Bear)
MS MVP-IE, Mail, Security, Windows Desktop Experience - since
2002
AumHa VSOP & Admin http://aumha.net
DTS-L http://dts-l.net/
johnnie2130 wrote:
I have a lot of e-mails saved in folders I created in OE6. I'm
think
they're
bogging down my OE and causing it to lock up or run slow.
How do I save e-mails from OE 6 folders to my hard drive or
another
location? I created a folder in "My Documents" to save them
there.
That's
works fine until I try to save two e-mails with the same title
(example:
Re
. Then it asks if I want to
overright which I don't.
How can I move my e-mails and save all of the ones I want to?
Any
help
is
appreciated.