Vista - What's your organization stratgey?

Hi all, I've just switched to Vista/Windows Live Mail, and it's a
great opportunity to get re-organized -- I'm curious how others here
go about it.

I pop three accounts get a lot of email -- I'm using the "All Inbox"
Quick View so that I only have to look in one place for new mail.

I'm a bit confused by how to best use the "storage folders" -- for
example, if I want to "archive" incoming email, would I move it to a
"storage folder" or to a folder for that email account?

Also, how is one expected to use the "outbox" (are there any docs up
that explain how to smartly use the features of WLM to do stuff like
this?)

In any case -- I'm interested to hear how others here, with a few pop
accounts and a decent volume of email -- how you keep your email
organized and archvied.

Hopefully this is a discussion that lots of folks would find useful!

Thanks, -Scott

Every user has their own needs so how you do it will depend on what you
want.

For some what mail account it came from might be important so they may
have folders for each account someone else may want a folder for each
sender, or maybe for each type of sender (like business, family, friends,
finance etc.), another might like save, not yet and urgent. Only you know.

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Joseph Meehan

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"turnstyle" <turnstyle@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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So "storage folders" are just folders that aren't associated with a
particular account?

In other words, is there any practical difference between:

WLM/account 1 folder/archive/

and

WLM/storage folders/account 1/archive/

ie, is there more to what storage folders do, or is it simply an
"account agostic" space?

Thanks! -Scott

Storage folders have, as far as I can see, four functions.
(i) Sent, Draft and Deleted folders for newsgroup posts; newsgroup accounts
don't have their own.
(ii) Folders to accommodate migrated messages (eg. ones that the installer
finds in Outlook Express or Windows Mail during the installation process) or
imported messages
(iii) Temporary accommodation for "lost" messages - eg. ones that have been
received but not indexed and recorded in the database file because of some
glitch. These "recovered" items will usually find their way into the correct
folder, leaving an empty "Recovered items" folder behind under Storage
folders. At the moment, these empty folders should not be deleted because of
the problems this causes with Quick views.
(iv) As local storage for messages received and sent on HTTP or IMAP
accounts. These accounts synchronize, ie. what's on the server mirrors
what's in your local account folders. If you want to delete a message from
the server but keep a copy within WLMail locally, you can only achieve this
by moving the message to a folder under Storage folders.

If you're only using POP accounts, I would say your best bet would be to
create folders under your default account and then use Message rules to
divert all incoming mail to those folders. That way, you won't normally have
to concern yourself with Storage folders at all. The only irritation about
this is that Drafts and Sent items will be stored under the account they
were created in. Quick views help a lot here. And you can once in a while
trawl through your Sent items folders and move messages to the appropriate
[subject] folder under your default account.

This is the way I've been doing it for over a year, and it works flawlessly
with something like 20 POP accounts.
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Noel

"turnstyle" <turnstyle@xxxxxx> wrote in message
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Thanks! So, it seems, if I'm mostly popping a few accounts, I should
just ignore the storage folders, and keep my own "storage" folders
within the various account folders?

btw, I just got bit by that "quick views" bug, how annoying -- I was
glad to find the registry hack that gets them back.

I gather you now have to empty each of your trash folders, one at
time?

(I wish there were more than one "flag" I could apply to a message.)

-Scott

"turnstyle" <turnstyle@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:cc594c77-5e70-4f7a-a629-8759f1bba077@xxxxxxI haven't tried it in Windows Live Mail, but in Windows Mail the
Outbox is reserved for mail you have told it to send, but this mail
hasn't gone to the outgoing email server yet

turnstyle wrote...
As I said, that's what I do and it works for me.
Not if you divert *all* mail to folders under *one* account - then you'll
only have one Deleted items and one Junk e-mail folder to deal with.
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Noel