Parts Folder and Spool Folder ?

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Norm - 30 Nov 2007 21:43 GMT

What type of attachments (from outgoing and incoming mail) end up in
these two folders as contrasted to where Attachments are saved?

The answer is probably in the documentation right in front of me but I
haven't found it and I'm curious as to whether I "should" purge these
folders.

Eudora 6.2.3

Thank you.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 01 Dec 2007 19:09 GMT

> What type of attachments (from outgoing and incoming mail) end up in
> these two folders as contrasted to where Attachments are saved?

IIRC attachments that are sent as 'inline' tend to end up in the Parts
folder. So you might not want to empty it blindly.

What Spool is good for I don't remember. Some sort of cache, I think.
Clearing it now and then doesn't seem to do any bad.

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Martin S. - 02 Dec 2007 01:22 GMT

> > What type of attachments (from outgoing and incoming mail) end up in
> > these two folders as contrasted to where Attachments are saved?
>
> IIRC attachments that are sent as 'inline' tend to end up in the Parts
> folder. So you might not want to empty it blindly.

I've noticed that *some* of the included images of html mail I receive
tend to end up in the Parts folder, so I leave it untouched.

Sorry for my ignorance, but what are IIRC attachments?

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Elmo P. Shagnasty - 02 Dec 2007 01:44 GMT

> > IIRC attachments that are sent as 'inline' tend to end up in the Parts
> > folder. So you might not want to empty it blindly.
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>
> Sorry for my ignorance, but what are IIRC attachments?

IIRC = "If I recall correctly,"

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Julian Y. Koh - 23 Dec 2007 14:32 GMT

> What Spool is good for I don't remember. Some sort of cache, I think.
> Clearing it now and then doesn't seem to do any bad.

Spool holds cached copies of attachments that you send out. Shouldn't be bad
to clear those out, although it does happen automatically after some time.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 24 Dec 2007 00:55 GMT

> > What Spool is good for I don't remember. Some sort of cache, I think.
> > Clearing it now and then doesn't seem to do any bad.
>
> Spool holds cached copies of attachments that you send out.

Do you actually see that behaviour? My Spool Folder only contains stuff
I received, not what I sent. (It does contain many broken alias files
though. Possibly they once pointed to stuff I sent. I don't recognize
any of the names though, so I doubt it.)

> Shouldn't be bad
> to clear those out, although it does happen automatically after some time.

I don't think it does. I've got stuff in ~/Documents/Eudora Folder/Spool
Folder/ dating back 2.5 years. And the only relevant setting appears to
be: <x-eudora-setting:194> "Folders in the spool folder will be removed
after this many days. Set to 0 to keep items indefinitely."

I have this set to 0 and strongly suspect that that's the default.

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Chris - 24 Dec 2007 02:12 GMT

> > > What Spool is good for I don't remember. Some sort of cache, I think.
> > > Clearing it now and then doesn't seem to do any bad.
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> though. Possibly they once pointed to stuff I sent. I don't recognize
> any of the names though, so I doubt it.)

My folder contains lots of indivual folders all numeric and each
containing attachments I sent.

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Sander Tekelenburg - 05 Jan 2008 02:06 GMT

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> > > Spool holds cached copies of attachments that you send out.
> >
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> My folder contains lots of indivual folders all numeric and each
> containing attachments I sent.

Interesting. Might you send attachments 'inline'? I never do. Possibly
that's a relevant difference here.

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Chris - 05 Jan 2008 13:47 GMT

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>
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> Interesting. Might you send attachments 'inline'? I never do. Possibly
> that's a relevant difference here.

Sometimes I do, yes.

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Steve W. Jackson - 24 Dec 2007 05:26 GMT

> > > What Spool is good for I don't remember. Some sort of cache, I think.
> > > Clearing it now and then doesn't seem to do any bad.
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>
> I have this set to 0 and strongly suspect that that's the default.

I just tried that setting and it tells me that the default setting is
nothing at all. Oddly enough, my current setting is "n" -- rather than
a number. But I've long had a practice of periodically (with no
particular regularity) clearing out the Spool folder.

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Parts Folder and Spool Folder ?