Cannot create sub-mailbox

I have just downloaded Eudora 7.1 (I realize Eudora is no longer
providing support for this, but understand that now, when you download
it, you get the full version.)

I have created several mailboxes and want to create submailboxes. When
I right click on a mailbox, the word "New..." is greyed out. If I
choose "New..." from the Mailbox menu instead, it's black, but still
tells me I am about to create a new mailbox at the top level. I know
Eudora has this capability but am not sure why it's not letting me do
this now. (If this makes any difference, I also have some mail in an
IMAP tree, but that should be unrelated to this issue. The mailboxes I
am trying to work with are local.)

Any help is greatley appreciated.

On Wed, 13 Aug 2008 11:09:43 -0500, elyssa wrote:

> I have just downloaded Eudora 7.1 (I realize Eudora is no longer
> providing support for this, but understand that now,
> when you download it, you get the full version.)

There is always just one installer version;
after installing, you can select a feature mode:
Light, "Sponsored" (but actually ad-free now,
and with almost every feature enabled anyway),
or "Paid" (requires a registration code,
no longer sold but easy to get, often spontaneously posted
by oddly named lurkers in this newsgroup

> I have created several mailboxes and want to create submailboxes.
> When I right click on a mailbox, the word "New..." is greyed out.

In the "mailboxes" window (not menu), the "context menu"
(right-click menu) for a mailbox shows "new" greyed out,
because Eudora thinks of a "mailbox" as being only
a container for mail, not as also a container for more mailboxes,
while people used to Thunderbird and Outlook Express
may be used to the idea that one name can mean both things
at the same time.

It is possible to identically name both a mailbox and a mail folder,
even in Eudora, using a trick,
but Eudora displays all mail folders separately from all mailboxes,
so you would not see these "combined" in the "mailbox" tree anyway,
diminishing the value of even bothering with this trick.

You can, however, create a heierarchy of mail folders,
adding new folders under other folders, by simply check-marking
"make it a folder" when you create something new,
inside any other mail folder, which seems to satisfy most needs,
just as the Windows file system allows you to organize
folders and files any way you like, into a "tree,"
even though it does not let you make both a folder and a file
having exactly the same name (which users of VAX VMS,
on the other hand, may similarly have become used to

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> In the "mailboxes" window (not menu), the "context menu"
> (right-click menu) for a mailbox shows "new" greyed out,
> because Eudora thinks of a "mailbox" as being only
> a container for mail, not as also a container for more mailboxes...

....while it thinks of a "mail folder" as being a container
for any combination of mailboxes and more mail folders,
just like the Windows file system,
where a "file" can't contain more files,
but every "folder" can contain both files and more folders,
and every uniquely named object is either a "file" (mailbox)
or a "folder" (container), but not both at the same time.

Eudora's "Mailbox" menu (at the top of the window)
probably makes this more obvious,
whereas the "Mailboxes" window (tree)
makes one expect Outlook Express or Thunderbird

There's an advantage to Eudora being just like Windows,
which is that it greatly simplifies the internal
file and folder structure (and program design),
which in Eudora is so very simple and obvious
that even "ordinary people" can easily understand it

"So advanced -- it's simple!" [Canon's old advertising slogan]

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