I've not had any trouble stopping the email in the middle of the download and deleting the downloaded part off the server. For me, that is one of the advantages of the BN over other devices. I'm using a BT, so don't readily know the commands for the QT. But, when I'm in the middle of the download, I press space with e. Then I'm asked something like if I want to hang-up immediately or after the current operation finishes. And, grin, I just looked at the manual, and I'm thinking it said to press n if one wanted to hang up after finishing the current operation; but, for some reason, I've always pressed the letter y and it has worked just fine. And, should I want to leave the mail on the server and read it again on my PC instead, then I press the letter i when asked that question so I can just hang up immediately and leave all the messages on the server for later reading. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Lingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 24, 2006 12:02 AM Subject: RE: [Braillenote] Mpower, keysoft seven and downloading email problem
Ottawa Canada Hello Paul: You raise a very good point. That is, if the Braille Note doesn't successfully complete downloading all mail on the server, it will keep trying to download that mail even if you have read the messages it successfully downloaded before locking up. A similar problem happened to a friend of mine while attending the ACB 2005 National Convention in Las Vegas. She was using her BrailleNote Classic with version 6.1 or 6.2 software with the wireless card on the network in the hotel and found the mail download started out fine, but slowed to a crawl as it progressed through the first few hundred messages and finally stalled to a halt. She tried that download several times and never did succeed with her BrailleNote Classic. She was able to read the messages the unit had downloaded so far, but of course next time she tried downloading, it downloaded them again and again. I don't think she ever was able to resolve the problem and just gave up and downloaded the whole slew of messages when she returned home. My own ISP has a web mail service in addition to their POP3 service so, if need be, I could use the browser to connect to the web site and read either all or just the offending message, on the web site and delete it from the server manually. Then either try downloading again or just read all the crazy mail on the web site to clean up the backlog and then try downloading new mail. It is too bad the mail downloading software used with POP3 servers doesn't have an option to just download the first so many messages, and delete them off of the server so problems downloading mail can be sort of worked around. I'm, not sure, but this limitation could he in the POP3 spec. But this doesn't explain why you couldn't successfully download your large amount of mail from the server. Brian -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.385 / Virus Database: 268.4.4/319 - Release Date: 19/04/2006 ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote ___ To leave the BrailleNote list, send a blank message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To view the list archives or change your preferences, visit http://list.humanware.com/mailman/listinfo/braillenote
