For a number of years I have been using "added mail boxes" as a way to offload and archive some mail so that I can still access it if necessary. I have found the add mail box facility to be flaky and dangerous to use but by being careful I have managed so far.
In particular, I have created extra mail boxes and stored mail in a folder hierarchy in them. However, I have found that in order to use these mail boxes it does not seem that their path and/or name can be changed. Trying to use another path or name can corrupt everything. I have never understood this; I have just worked with it.
However, I now need to move these extra mail boxes to another location. Is there any way to do this?
I have investigated a little to try to figure out why it works this way. The help instructions give a different impression of how it ought to work so I had always presumed that each mail box would have its own, independent folder hierarchy. However, I can see that the added mail box directories contain only FOL files.
So I went looking through the main hierarch.pm file in Pegasus' "New Mailbox" directory. I can see that it contains references to the external mail boxes and their file structure that include paths and file names. So it seems the external mail boxes are not independent but are hard coded into the main hierarch.pm file. Is there any way around this?
Also, while looking in the hierarch.pm file I noted a lot of garbage entries that seem to refer to long deleted material. Is this normal? Shouldn't those entries have been removed when the items to which they refer were deleted?
I'd appreciate any help.