Hi list and hw staff!
I have had a time or two when I was downloading email, not 500
but maybe a hundred, I can't remember.
I kept coming across one number that, as soon as my unit said
"receiving, I will use as an example 25, it completely locked up.
The only way I could get it started again was to reset.
I finally decreesed the size, and found that the message was some
kind of spamm.
I sometimes get a lot of these, you folks on the list might want
to watch for these, I can't read em, but in the subject line,
they just say "reply #--- where #--- is a number for example
subject reply 1. I think I have had it go all the way up to
reply 17 or something like that.
I wish my server had a blocker or that the bn had something that
you could automatically stop spam, either by skipping over it or
telling you that this particular email has been designated spam
by the user and giving you options just like the size prompt does
now.
I think the option to automatically skip and either erase from
the server or not depending on user choice, perhaps set up in the
Keymail Setup menue would be wonderful.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "Brian Lingard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: "Braillenote List" <[email protected]
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 00:02:39 -0400
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
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