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Date: Sun, 01 Jun 1997 20:35:59 -0700
To: Eudora for Windows <eudora-win@wso.williams.edu>
From: Paul Andrew Mitchell [address in tool bar]
Subject: SLF: 2-level archive causes Eudora bug
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Hello Kevin and others,

The Mailbox menu option allows for
a "New" entry to be created, and 
the "New" entry can be either a
file (aka mailbox), or a directory
(aka folder).  A multi-level structure
can be created, using these options;
whether Eudora was actually designed
to support a multi-level structure
is a question which Qualcomm will need
to answer, since I cannot speak for
them.  Part of the problem may stem
from Eudora's use of a correspondence
table (DESCMAP.PCE) which maps an
arbitrary alphanumeric string into
a valid DOS file or directory name.
This allows users to describe mail boxes
and mail folders with meaningful names,
instead of the awkward DOS 8-character
prefix, ".", 3-character suffix.  I don't
know, for a fact, if this map must remain
synchronized with the rest of the file
system.  I must confess to having experimented
quite successfully with loading a file structure
which I created with DOS MKDIR commands,
assisted by a text editor.  It was my upgrading
to 3.0.2 which precipitated the meltdown.

/s/ Paul Mitchell


At 06:47 PM 6/1/97 -0700, you wrote:
>On 12:14 PM 6/1/97 -0700, Paul Andrew Mitchell spoke these words:
>>[This text is formatted in Courier 11, non-proportional spacing.]
>>
>>
>>Dear Qualcomm Tech Support:
>>
>>I am building an indexed folder structure,
>>so that I can route frequent mail from the
>>same person into his own folder, e.g., all 
>>mail from "Jack" goes into a mailbox in
>[Bla Bla Bla]
>
>Is this a "BUG" or are we trying to do something with Eudora that Eudora
was not made to do?
>
>Just asking.
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