On 17 Apr 2002, at 8:19, Dennis Bathory-Kitsz wrote: > At 06:44 AM 4/17/02 -0400, David H. Bailey wrote: > >One thing to remember about that, though, is that those huge e-mails may > >well remain on your e-mail server, eventually clogging your box and > >preventing good messages from being delivered. If you leave them on the > >server, be sure you know how to then delete them from your mailbox. > > I get a lot of mail (over 300 per day). I pre-sort by going to > http://www.mail2web.com/ and signing in via the secure server. I list all > messages, preview the sender/subject safely, delete stuff left on the > server (broken attachments, for example, which will still show up as a > message), and delete the Asian spam that sometimes crashes Eudora. > > I recommend it over, say, going in via Telnet or some 'serial' style mail > program, which can be really annoying to key in stroke after stroke to sort > through the stuff.
I hate to keep harping on my email reader, Pegasus Mail, but it has a DOWNLOAD HEADERS option (MS Outlook had this in Outlook 97, the last version I risked using as an email client), and you can get a list of the messages on your ISP's mail server, including the size, the subject and the sender, and selectively download the ones you want, and delete the others. I don't use it as I am running my own mail server (Mercury, from the same folks who produce Pegasus Mail) and the mail server downloads my mail for me from my ISP's POP server. I am relieved to know why I had heard my server's hard driver crunching overnight the last couple of nights -- it was surely these 8MB bounces being written to disk after download. Both Pegasus Mail and Mercury are free. I have not done much testing with the latest version of Pegasus (4.01), but still use 3.12c as my mail client. PM 4.01 is still kind of buggy, as it is an extremely major upgrade from the previous version. For a program created and maintained by a single programmer, it is pretty remarkable. The URL for downloading Pegasus is http://www.pmail.com/ . I assume that nosing around there you can find a download of PM 3.12c if you're wary of 4.01. Oh, BTW, Windows only, unfortunately. But still a wonderful (though quirky) email client. -- David W. Fenton | http://www.bway.net/~dfenton David Fenton Associates | http://www.bway.net/~dfassoc _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
