Limit on number of mailboxes

[Fred Holmes]

Eudora Pro 6.1 Paid Mode

Is there a limit on the number of mailboxes that one can (should be
able to) create?

As I've created more and more mailboxes, the Mailbox menu appearance /
display has gotten "squirrely" but has not brought up a hard warning
"too many mailboxes; can't create a new one."

Is there a way to make the mailbox/transfer menu display as one long,
single-column list that can be scrolled, instead of the multi-column
list that seems to be the default display?

Is the limit on the number of mailboxes raised by putting mailboxes
into folders instead of keeping them at the root level?

By "squirrely" I mean, for example, that if the mailbox menu isn't
displayed fully / correctly, I can generally fix it by sliding the
mouse pointer along the main menu bar approaching the mailbox menu
button from the right instead of approaching from the left or from
directly below, etc.

I don't see any of this discussed in the .pdf manual or in the help.

Thanks,

Fred Holmes

[Katrina Knight]

Fred Holmes <f...@his.com> wrote:
> Is there a limit on the number of mailboxes that one can (should be
> able to) create?

I don't know of any limit on the number of mailboxes one can create,
beyond the Windows limits on the number of files in a directory. What one
should do is another matter. It is generally best to limit the number of
mailboxes and folders at any given level. If you don't, it can be hard to
find the ones you want and you can end up having trouble getting menus to
display them all, as you've apparently discovered.

> Is there a way to make the mailbox/transfer menu display as one long,
> single-column list that can be scrolled, instead of the multi-column
> list that seems to be the default display?

Which version of Windows are you using? If you're using a version of
Windows that offers the ability to do it both ways, then you can use the
setting WrapMenus=0 to make the menus scroll instead of wrapping. It goes
in the [settings] section of eudora.ini.

> Is the limit on the number of mailboxes raised by putting mailboxes
> into folders instead of keeping them at the root level?

Since there isn't a limit, that's not going to raise the limit. It is
however going to have an effect on how many items a given menu needs to
display, which is obviously going to make a difference to how the menu
displays. Generally, you should organize your mailboxes into folders in a
way that makes it easy to find the ones you want. How many mailboxes you
put in each place is a personal decision for the most part, so long as you
don't have too many to be displayed in a popup window in any given place.

> By "squirrely" I mean, for example, that if the mailbox menu isn't
> displayed fully / correctly, I can generally fix it by sliding the
> mouse pointer along the main menu bar approaching the mailbox menu
> button from the right instead of approaching from the left or from
> directly below, etc.

That sounds quite odd. When it doesn't display properly, how does it
display?

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Katrina