Vista - Limit amount of viewed emails?

I have a problem with Windows Live Mail, in that it shows all my
emails at once (and I don't want it to load/show my entire list of
thousands of emails).
It seems the only way to limit that, is to only have it show "unread
emails", but I would like to see some of my recent "read mails" as
well.

In Outlook and Thunderbird, you could collapse older emails. It was
automatically split up into new/old emails. That way I would always
look at the last week of emails and nothing more.

Is there a way to limit how many emails it shows?

Thanks

Not in WLM. There is a registry entry you can alter to expand unread emails
(simply set "Expand Unread" to "1" found under
HKLM/Software/Microsoft/Windows Live Mail) but nothing to limit the amount
of emails that get shown.

Colin Brown
WL MVP

"Jack Flannigan" <jack.flannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f2dc6b52-f525-46ea-8474-a1e4f2248ad0@xxxxxx

Thank you for the tip Colin, I will surely use that now that the
"Outlook feature" is missing.

But I can't stop worrying this could be a problem in the long run,
when it comes to speed/responsiveness.
I mean, I have multiple email-accounts with thousands of emails each.
Changing between these accounts on a daily basis in WLM I fear will be
noticeably slower than if I could limit it to show last week's emails
as a default.
(the thing with hiding them all via the mentioned "hide unread"-
feature, can in some situations solve the problem, but it is far from
always I want to hide ALL my emails)




On 21 Jan., 21:44, "Colin Brown WLMVP" <Hackerso...@xxxxxx>
wrote:

Which folder are you in when you see all those old emails?
The Inbox folder should not be used for semi-permanent storage.
Make a separate archive folder for the older messages.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Jack Flannigan" <jack.flannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:f2dc6b52-f525-46ea-8474-a1e4f2248ad0@xxxxxx

You got a good point Gary. I must admit I never thought of this
archive-thing.

I see why it can be a good idea or why it is the normal thing to do as
you suggest.

But when using Gmail (or Hotmail for that matter) I never really felt
the need for that. The search-options functions very well, and it is a
timesaver for me never having to worry about catagorizing/archiving
old material. I get a lot of email, some important and some not. I can
find just about all of it with a simple search. And when logged into
Gmail or Hotmail it only shows around 25-50 emails per page, so it was
never a problem when I accessed them via my browser.

My point is: for me it would most likely be a "time-waster" having to
suddenly worry about that. Even if I made it automatic, like storing
all older-than-a-certain-date-emails to an archive, the problem would
be the same each time I had to access the archive (that would then be
filled with thousands of emails, it would have to show at once in
WLM).

I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the nice advice (it actually made
me look at things a bit differently), I am just trying to explain why
this still not might be the ideal thing in regards to the way I use
email/WLM.

Thanks again.




On 22 Jan., 07:45, "Gary VanderMolen" <G...@xxxxxx> wrote:

"Jack Flannigan" <jack.flannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message
news:f2dc6b52-f525-46ea-8474-a1e4f2248ad0@xxxxxx
In a Find window. E.g. to see only messages for the last week
press Ctrl-Shift-F, Alt-c, F4, CursorUp, Enter, Enter.
I keep thinking that that would make a good keyboard macro... ; )


Good luck

Robert Aldwinckle
---

We all have different ways of working. I seldom need to find
a message older than a few weeks, so I either archive those or
delete them. I use POP mail almost exclusively.

--
Gary VanderMolen, MS-MVP (Mail)


"Jack Flannigan" <jack.flannigan@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:3328b89b-c3e9-40e9-a937-1ad1fcfd1cad@xxxxxx
You got a good point Gary. I must admit I never thought of this
archive-thing.

I see why it can be a good idea or why it is the normal thing to do as
you suggest.

But when using Gmail (or Hotmail for that matter) I never really felt
the need for that. The search-options functions very well, and it is a
timesaver for me never having to worry about catagorizing/archiving
old material. I get a lot of email, some important and some not. I can
find just about all of it with a simple search. And when logged into
Gmail or Hotmail it only shows around 25-50 emails per page, so it was
never a problem when I accessed them via my browser.

My point is: for me it would most likely be a "time-waster" having to
suddenly worry about that. Even if I made it automatic, like storing
all older-than-a-certain-date-emails to an archive, the problem would
be the same each time I had to access the archive (that would then be
filled with thousands of emails, it would have to show at once in
WLM).

I don't mean to sound ungrateful for the nice advice (it actually made
me look at things a bit differently), I am just trying to explain why
this still not might be the ideal thing in regards to the way I use
email/WLM.

Thanks again.




On 22 Jan., 07:45, "Gary VanderMolen" <G...@xxxxxx> wrote:

there is a problem with this method. how does one move thousands of messages
to a diff folder? MS has confirmed that you can move only fifty at a time.
Any more than that and one starts receiving errors when syncing with the
hotmail servers. then, the only solution is to delete the whole
email-database and start from scratch...


"Gary VanderMolen" wrote:

I must have missed that.
Did Msft respond in this or some other forum ?

Why not copy to the Storage folders, it doesn't sync with Hotmail.

--
...winston
ms-mvp mail

"rothschild86" <rothschild86@xxxxxx> wrote in message news:037714A5-85D8-496A-8E8A-F3CD058513D9@xxxxxx

sync issue is widely discussed. copying to a local store could be one
solution i guess


"...winston" wrote: