stabizedly sort/maintain Eudora OSE "mailboxes" - How?

[synec...@schenectady.net]

We understand that the (supposed) Eudora work-alike, EudoraOSE, looks
like but does not necessarily act like real Eudora, BUT:

We'd appreciate knowing from someone who knows the answer,

How can we prevent EudoraOSE mailboxes from seemingly
on their own disappearing from the "Local Folders" sub-
folder sort list and being findable only by clicking on the
"Recent" menu option for "Mailbox" and, when that does
not work, as it frequently does not, selecting the "Local
Folders" option from that same menu then looking for the
small right-pointing arrows and trying to open the sub-sub
-folder menu that way?

In other words if more simply put, how can we get *all*
the mailboxes display in the "All Folders" pane of the on-
screen menu *permanently*?

Thanks very much.

[John H Meyers]

On 5/10/2012 5:43 PM:

> We understand that the (supposed) Eudora work-alike, EudoraOSE,
> looks like but does not necessarily act like real Eudora

To me, "OSE 1.0" doesn't even look like real (original) Eudora;
in fact, what it looks and acts nearly exactly like
is Mozilla's Thunderbird -- which, in fact, it is!
(frozen at Thunderbird release level 3.0.4)

> We'd appreciate knowing from someone who knows the answer,
>
> How can we prevent EudoraOSE mailboxes from seemingly
> on their own disappearing from the "Local Folders" sub-
> folder sort list and being findable only by clicking on the
> "Recent" menu option for "Mailbox" and, when that does
> not work, as it frequently does not, selecting the "Local
> Folders" option from that same menu then looking for the
> small right-pointing arrows and trying to open the sub-sub
> -folder menu that way?
>
> In other words if more simply put, how can we get *all*
> the mailboxes display in the "All Folders" pane of the on-
> screen menu *permanently*?

The folder pane is designed to have collapsable/expandable "tree" elements,
as well as to have various different available views ("All Folders,"
"Favorite Folders," "Smart Folders" etc.)

Tree nodes having "+/-" indicators happen to have a standard "open all" function,
whose keyboard shortcut is the gray (numeric keypad) "*" key.

Mailboxes _imported_ from Classic Eudora are designed to be
imported by OSE into Local Folders, since classic Eudora
uses only one combined set of mailboxes for all POP accounts,
for which "Local Folders" is analogous in Thunderbird.

If you mean that the entire folder tree may sometimes disappear
in both OSE and Thunderbird versions 3.x, this is a known issue
having a known solution:

<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Empty_folders>
<http://kb.mozillazine.org/Empty_folder_pane>

Since the content of the above has undergone recent change
(for more recent TB versions), the solution for TB version 3.x was:

"Delete the session.json and foldertree.json files from your TB profile.
They will be re-created when you start Thunderbird again, using default values."

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[craig...@gmail.com]

I'm having the same problem.

THe mailboxes don't show up on the list.

They did once.

No tree, no +/- options to open/collapse a tree..


nothing.

just blankness