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Re: Small Mailboxes (WAS www4mail option in Mozilla Mail)

sun zoom spark
Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:53:04 -0800

Hello accmailers ...

On 28 Mar 2007 at 10:40, Goutam wrote:
> The size of my inbox is only 1MB.
> How can I download a file which is biger than my inbox size via  
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?
> Is there any alternative method?

Yes! We have two answers for you.

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The first answer: send request
  help getpart
to www4mail`at`szs.net

Command getpart allows you to request specific file parts in the
numbered sequence. It is really intended to replace parts which did not
get delivered. You can also use it to obtain one or more parts
successively.

In your case, you should first empty your mailbox. Then request the
first 3 parts, like this ...
  GETPART 1-3
followed by the URL of the binary file.

When you have downloaded the first 3 parts, request the next 3 ...
  GETPART 4-6

This is, of course, *very* inefficient!


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The second answer: use a different inbox -- at Gmail.
Do you know somebody who has occasional access to the WWW?
Ask that person to set up a GMail account for you at
  http://mail.google.com/mail/signup
To minimise spam, your username should be obscure, like a password.

Ask your friend to edit the Gmail settings like this ...

In tab 'Forwarding and POP', under heading 'POP Download'
* Check 'Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on'
* Set 'When messages are accessed with POP' to 'archive' or 'delete'
Click on the 'Save Changes' button.

Now you have a mailbox with 2 Gb storage.

Gmail provides you with SMTP as well as POP.

You will need the extra information at these URLs
* Configuring mail clients
   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287
* Configuring Thunderbird Mail
   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=38343

You might also consider Pegasus Mail as your email client. It has the
advantage of selective download from your mailbox. That means you can
see what is in your mailbox before download, and then choose which items
to download, which to leave on the server, and which to delete.

This GMail method works very well (but if you are using an Internet
connection that is paid for by your employer or college, please make
sure you are not breaking any rules or terms of employment).

We access our Gmail from a flash drive which has both Pegasus Mail and
Portable Thunderbird on it. This is a good ACCMAIL technique if you can
be sure that
a) the computers you will use have a USB port
b) you will not lose your flash drive.

Links for Portable Thunderbird Mail ...
* Download page
   http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=151395
* English language binary
   
http://downloads.sourceforge.net/portabletbird/Thunderbird_Portable_1.5.0.10_en-us.paf.exe
* Thunderbird in Other Languages
  ("This page explains how to get Portable Thunderbird localized to your
  language of choice")
   http://portableapps.com/apps/internet/thunderbird_portable/localization
* Language Packs
   
http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/thunderbird/releases/1.5.0.5/win32/xpi/

We posted a working example of how to obtain Pegasus Mail on 16 March
this year. If you do not have that post, you can get it by sending an
email to listserv`at`listserv.aol.com with
  GETPOST ACCMAIL 1532
in the body of the message.

Hoping that helps ...
::: SZS :::

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