Re: I want to archive oe mail

anon wrote:
> "Mike Easter"

>> Identity1 has a completely different inbox and folder structure and
>> accounts and whatall than does identity2.
>>

> I wasn't planning on using more than one identity (have been only
> using one all this time.)

I don't necessarily mean a different meatspace identity -- I mean a
different OE identity

> Instead of 'identities' I have tried this to 'read' other computer's
> mail folders.

I'm just saying that you can create an OtherComputer identity in OE and
import the other computer's mail into that identity and get it all
sorted and organized into folders and handle it however you like.  Then
it isn't mixed in with This Computer's mail or news messages.  Or
folders.

> I create a folder and call it something (other computer, for
> instance) under 'local folders' then rename the copy of the other
> computer's letters from its folder name to 'other computer' then open
> this mew folder with oe.

Yes.  You can do it that way, with folders under the same identity.

> This has worked for individual oe folders on the other computer. Is
> there an easier way to have several folders deep there - or how does
> the multiple identities work for reading mail that is several folders
> deep under the local folder heading. Do I make up a 'carbon copy' of
> the folder tree in the new identity?

The other identity method has its own completely different folder
structure.  The original purpose of the identity business is so that
different 'personas' could have their own Inbox and Sent and Outbox
which isn't possible under one identity.

But if you don't need those functions for the other mail then you could
do it all with the folder functions.

-- 
Mike Easter
kibitzer, not SC admin