("Gig 601XL Builder" wrote)
Why not just use Thunderbird as a newsreader?


I've tried it twice. I keep coming back to OE.

We use Mozilla Thunderbird for most of our e-mails.

IMPORTANT: I just discovered that I'm suppose to right click and "Compact
This Folder" manually in Thunderbird. Or else...

[Tools/Options/Advanced/Offline Settings]
The setting for: "Disk Space: Compact folder when it will save over ??? KB"
was set too high, or was off. I've never compacted my T-Bird messages
before - oops. Never thought about it. OE does it automatically. [I've since
set mine to 100KB.]

Anyway, T-Bird locked up and I had to go to the web to read up how to get it
to quit "building summary file for..." - which it would do but never finish.

Web said to do a few things as one possible solution: Inbox became InboxOld
so I got to start fresh with a new default Inbox. I copied the contents of
InboxOld (some stuff I really want is still locked up in there) over to a
new folder location on my Desktop. When I try accessing it, it still does
the "building summary file for..." thing - but at least this way I've got a
fresh start with T-Bird.

The old Inbox Folder on my Desktop is 250MB. I've since learned Thunderbird
is happier with smaller, sub-divided folders.

I'll Google and play with it more another time.


Montblack