Outbox TOC trashed?

[JJ]

My v7.1.0.9 stopped showing sent mail in the outbox a week ago. I'd
just mailed some large photo attachments. The first batch showed up
just fine in the Outbox, but the resend to another recipient never did
(even though apparently all Sent mail has been received on the other
end). Neither have any mails sent subsequently.

Time to do the OldOutbox2012 routine and rebuild the TOC?

JJ

[JJ]

On Wed, 16 May 2012 10:10:47 -0400, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlf...@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

>On Wed, 16 May 2012 01:02:01 -0700, JJ <elj...@unspameljefe.net>
>declaimed the following in comp.mail.eudora.ms-windows:

>
>>
>> Time to do the OldOutbox2012 routine and rebuild the TOC?
>>

> And maybe create an outgoing filter to archive sent mail to a
>different mailbox... That way the OUT.mbx can be purged/compressed at
>regular intervals and has a minimum of content.

I frequently compress the four major boxes I use on a regular basis. I
also have annual In and Out boxes, where I move large chunks as the
need arises. The Outbox in question only had 3791K in it, well below
the advised max of 10,000.

So here's what I discovered, after moving everything to a new box
called OldOutbox2012 ... all the missing mail had somehow migrated to
the very top of the indexed Sent mail. I'm clueless (heh) as to how
that could have happened, since my Outbox is routinely indexed by
latest time/date sent. Weird.

Guess I can move it all back now. ;)

JJ

[John H Meyers]

On 5/16/2012 12:27 PM, JJ wrote:

> all the missing mail had somehow migrated
> to the very top of the indexed Sent mail

What does that mean?

In a message summary list (mailbox window),
the messages "move by themselves" every time
you click a column to change the sort order.

If any sort order is currently in effect,
newly appended messages get inserted into that current order,
maintaining the current order at all times.

So, if I leave the "Who" column as being sorted upon
and send some new messages, I may not see the messages
being inserted into the middle of my list.

Leaving messages sorted by Date will more often
produce results that we expect, but even then
we may be caught off guard by messages wrongly dated by senders,
as well as by messages spending unequal times in transit,
or displayed with sender time zones instead of ours.

In classic Eudora,
leaving NO column currently being sorted
is the only way to ensure that newly appended messages
will actually be appended at the very end.

Click twice in any column (so that no "triangle" remains)
to leave the list so that added messages will not be sorted.

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