Hi Listers, I am in a terrible mess with my email folders in Comcast/Xfinity. I came to comcast because it was the only thing available where I live - fibre optics is on the way - so they say/ I had Prodigy/Yadoo where I stored emails I wanted to keep. If I wanted something on the far end of the list I could scroll to it. Easy as that and when I found what I wanted , the cursor would remain there unless otherwise moved. Well, Not so with comcast!!! I didn't realize what it was really doing until it was too late. When an email arrived and I didn't know wherther to delte it or not, I left it alone and would periodiclly go through to delete or keep. I then realized that the in box was getting very filled and I would spend hours with it - I could look at only 50 at a time and each time I read one one to consider, it defaulted back to the first. The problem is now huge, and I mean HUGE 0 I have about 5000 in my inbox. If someone has comcast/Xfifnityy and knows what I am talking about , I would love to hear from you. I have spent hours taking to the tech and they know nothing. It has been an ongoing problem for nearly 3 years/ THank you so very much Desperate in MA Barbara :}

Hi Barbara I am not familiar with Comcast / Xfinity but assume its web mail ? My suggestion would be to use something like Thunderbird for our email Once set up it will download your mail onto your computer, where you can sort it, colour code it or reorganise it into folders if desired (it can also put designated mails into their own folders if desired) You can still look at your web mail if you wanted to but generally you would have no need to In Thunderbird you could sort the mails you want to keep and sift out those you want to delete <http://kb.mozillazine.org/Creating_accounts_in_Thunderbird_for_popular_email_providers> Nivard Ovington in Cornwall (UK) On 18/07/2012 14:16, Barbara Young wrote: > > Hi Listers, > > I am in a terrible mess with my email folders in Comcast/Xfinity. > I came to comcast because it was the only thing available where I live - fibre optics is on the way - so they say/ > I had Prodigy/Yadoo where I stored emails I wanted to keep. If I wanted something on the far end of the list I could scroll to it. Easy as that and when I found what I wanted , the cursor would remain there unless otherwise moved. > > Well, Not so with comcast!!! I didn't realize what it was really doing until it was too late. When an email arrived and I didn't know wherther to delte it or not, I left it alone and would periodiclly go through to delete or keep. I then realized that the in box was getting very filled and I would spend hours with it - I could look at only 50 at a time and each time I read one one to consider, it defaulted back to the first. The problem is now huge, and I mean HUGE 0 I have about 5000 in my inbox. > > If someone has comcast/Xfifnityy and knows what I am talking about , I would love to hear from you. > > I have spent hours taking to the tech and they know nothing. It has been an ongoing problem for nearly 3 years/ > > THank you so very much > Desperate in MA > Barbara :}