Mark
IF you have access to a PC running any version of Windows,
do a search for FoxMail, a compact e-mail client that includes
instructions to execute on the mail server, which will allow
you to clear the blockage.
I subscribed to one list without knowing I would receive a deluge
of over 500 mails per day -- I now get them "digested" as 4 x 250kB
files per day. Like you, I found that the sticking mail caused all
prior mails to be downloaded on subsequent sessions.
Tech-news website http://theregister.co.uk told recently of some
huge press-release clogging their mail, that couldn't be shifted by
any M$ offerings. They used The Bat, which is shareware.
I recommend FoxMail because it is compact and Freeware, with
a version for Win3.1x
If you choose the FoxMail route I can talk you through the procedure.
Good luck
Jake
----- on 16/01/00 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.
> I'm currently exploring their web site to see if there is anything I can do
> from there.
