Mark,
There is another option besides trying to find a human who can attempt
to delete the large file without trashing the balance of your mail.
Yes, your entire mail package on the ISP servers *could* be trashed if
they still use single flatfile for messages rather than single messages
with database access. My ISP just recently went to the new method of
single file storage.
Anyway, here's what you *can* do. Go to http://www.mailstart.com
Enter your POP3 info [username, password] and access your mail via the
web! You'll then be able to read, delete if desired, reply if desired.
You might even be able to separately save that 400+K file on your system
and then delete it appropriately on your ISP's system. Once that big
file is out of the way, you should be able to d/l mail with Arachne with
no problems.
l.d.
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On Sun, 16 Jan 2000 15:03:14 -0800, Clarence Verge wrote:
> Mark David Roth wrote:
>> I've been trying to download all my email from pop.hotpop.com. It gets
>> the first 10 messages the discontinues the connection. The last file is a
>> big one, 416,663. I've been trying it for days now. The server isn't
>> deleting the messages it allready sent. So it downloads those same first 10
>> files, then quits, every time. Is there something in Arachne that causing
>> it to quit or do you think it's the server? I tried contacting them at
>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] I still haven't got a response from them yet.
> Hi Mark;
> This sort of thing has happened to me when some Windows using m*r*n tries
> to send me the contents of his harddisk.
> The best thing to do is call them and try to talk to a human.
> Ask them to delete that big file.
> - Clarence Verge
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