Jill, I'd say that in the four years I've been using Jaws and Outlook Express, I've accumulated a couple hundred folders of email messages. Roughly speaking, I've got a folder for each message rule I've set up. On the high-volume lists, I've found that Outlook Express crashes if a folder contains more than 14,000 messages, with the exception of the Sent Items folder. So I try not to let my message folders get that big. When a folder reaches 9500 or 9600 messages, I create an archive for that folder and move half of those messages to the archive. I hope this answers your first question. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill O'Connell" <jillocon@xxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2004 9:56 PM Subject: Re: all JFW mail in its own folder > Is there any limit as to the number of E-mail messages that can be placed in > folders? Is there any reason to place messages one wants to keep > indefinitely in folders outside Outlook Express? > > > -- > To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. > Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw > > If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx -- To post a message to the list, send it to jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe from this mailing list, send a message to jfw-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with the word unsubscribe in the subject line. Archives located at: //www.freelists.org/archives/jfw If you have any concerns about the list, post received from the list, or the way the list is being run, do not post them to the list. Rather contact the list owner at jfw-admins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx