[Ham-Computers] eMail Manager for XP

Sun Jan 14 19:55:49 EST 2018

I'm afraid that you are a little confused.  I didn't say at the outset that
any mail manager wouldn't do anything except that I already knew that
Outlook, being a 2/3 pane system couldn't show the directory of all of the
received and sent mail the way that what I had been using could.  And I
didn't at the beginning know how to automatically route incoming mail from
multiple email addresses into different folders for reading and sorting and
subsequent disposition.  

I did know that with Outlook I could not rename INBOX and that I couldn't
arbitrarily move folders around and have them stay where I put them because
the Mail Folders are hard-coded to be sorted only alphanumerically either
ascending or descending.  I have not found and no one else has told me how
to turn that off, either in Outlook or in Thunderbird.  So I conclude that
it can't be done.  So for that, I figured out a workaround and now all
folders appear in the order that I was already used to them being in.

I did in the beginning ask for recommendations for another mail manager than
Outlook because (a) I didn't know how to route incoming mail from my
multiple email addresses to their own individual inboxes.  And (b) I was
still hoping to find a manager that would display the contents of two or
more folders simultaneously.  Once with some help I knew how to do the first
requirement and had confirmed that none of the other known email managers
could do the second, there was no benefit to be had by running two managers
at the same time.  And as I already own Outlook 2007, have some familiarity
with it, have some part of around 20+ years worth of emails stored in it,
and know again that none of the other managers including Thunderbird are
capable of doing the one thing that Outlook also will not do, there was no
adequate benefit to be had by changing horses.  Thunderbird may be faster or
sleeker or whatever than Outlook.  But I sorta know this horse and its
quirks, and I own it.  So that is why I declined to change horses.

As far as why I'm not interested in converting to Linux, I have too much
time and money invested in software that has no even barely adequate
equivalent that will run under Linux.  And I'm too old to want to start all
over from scratch if I don't have to.

Anyway, as I said last night, the system is now up and running and I thank
all of you who helped me get it to this point.  There are still two issues
with the one IMAP account to be fixed (and which predate the recent crisis
caused by AOL).  But that account exists only because I needed another email
address just to be able to set up an additional account on a BB that I
moderate.  If it gets five emails a year, I'll be surprised.  I wouldn't
even worry about it except that someone at Comcast told me that eventually
they will be converting all POP3 accounts over to IMAP.  So I should be
ready.

Robert Downs - Houston
WA5CAB

-----Original Message-----
From: ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net
[mailto:ham-computers-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On Behalf Of Ron Youvan
Sent: Sunday, January 14, 2018 08:54 AM
To: Robert Downs via Ham-Computers
Subject: Re: [Ham-Computers] eMail Manager for XP

On 01/14/2018 04:27 AM, Robert Downs wrote:   (in part)

> FWIW, with a lot of digging on my part and the help of several people 
> on this list who wanted to help instead of to proselytize, I have 
> either discovered how to do just about everything that I have asked 
> about or in one case reconfirmed that neither Microsoft nor Linux have 
> ever been nor will ever be capable of doing it.  AFAIK, the capability 
> of doing it vanished from the planet this past Tuesday morning 
> sometime between the hours of
> 03:15 and 10:30.

   It is easy to ask everyone how to make something possible that is not,
but the original question/s was about several incapabilities that one E-mail
CLIENT would not do.* I did not see any that the client that I use (along
with seamonkey) routinely do.  He refused to try T-bird.
   There is no normal capability that is not possible for M$ or LINUX or
MAC, the limitations are almost all with the application.

  * at least one radio friend stated that this chaps E-mail CLIENT in fact
can do those things that he had not figured out how to accomplish and he
would show him how to do it, but that plan didn't seem to work out either.
(so far)
-- 
   Ron  KA4INM - Youvan's corollary:
                 Every action results in unwanted side effects.
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