If you want to make sure you always have a copy (to the best of your backup abilities, anyway,) then yes, you need to download your mail.
http://archiveteam.org/index.php?title=Deathwatch Especially in this and upcoming years, backing things up from online services is important to do. Among those that are closing or have closed with no or little notice: - Geocities (!) - AOL Hometown - Tripod - Yahoo Briefcase - Filefront.com (1.5M files, 48TB, gone) - AOL Pictures - TOTSE So yes, backup your stuff. They have no obligation to do it for you (other than their reputation, which doesn't last.) -Mark C. P.S. I'm one to talk, of course... I still haven't backed up my GMail in 4 years... I really should get on that. Thanks for the reminder! On 4/26/09, Richard Carter <[email protected]> wrote: > Dick, > > Are you sure you need to download your mail? I use only web mail and some > of my messages on shaw are several years old. (I must clean house sometime!) > Even better, my wife and each have gmail accounts which we use most of the > time and we never download. Right now I have 401MB on their server which is > 5% of my quota. > > Robin > > On Sat, Apr 25, 2009 at 12:34 PM, Dick Angus <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I am running Kubuntu 9.04-64bit (just did an upgrade and all appears good > so far - it did take several restarts to get all the upgrade downloaded due, > I'm sure, to overloaded servers). My wife uses a miniMac (older PPC chip). > We share a mail account at Shaw. I have my KMail set up to leave the mail on > the server for seven days and her Mac mail is set up to remove mail when > downloaded. This problem started under Kubuntu 8.10, probably KDE 4.1 is a > better starting point, and has continued under KDE 4.2.2. My wife's mail is > fine, it does just what you'd expect. My KMail appears to run normal, but > about twice or three times a week it re-downloads all the old mail that's > hanging around the server. Thus I end up with a couple of hundred duplicate > messages. It's not serious, but it is irritating. Because nothing happens > like this on the Mac I am assuming it's related to KDE or KMail? Did > something change in KMail or did Shaw change something or do I have a bad > set of preferences? Maybe I should take the 7 day delay off the leave mail > on the server setting? Any ideas? _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
