On Wednesday, July 3, 2002, at 08:48 PM, Laurent Daudelin wrote: > on 03/07/02 21:36, Donald Keenan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> Hi folks. >> I got a mail message yesterday and today telling me that my mail quota >> was nearly full in the OS X Mail application. >> Granted, I do have 180 odd mail messages in my inbox, but had that many >> before and never received such a message. >> The message came to my inbox without a sender. >> I tried to cut and paste the message and send it in a message to this >> list, but the message was "not deliverable" and the message was returned >> by the Mail Daemon. >> It contained a mime attachment and "Reporting-MTA: dns; >> mail.maclaunch.com" >> Is this perchance virus related? >> Mail in OS X has always been a little buggy for me with error messages >> about my deleted mailbox being locked and fetch errors and so forth. >> This mysterious message never appeared before and now I'm a little >> concerned that this isn't my Mail app telling me to clean house but a >> virus. >> Thanks for any input. >> Donald >> > > I'd be surprised if there was a quota in Mail. What I think is happening > is > that your mail account is reaching is quota, specially if you have more > than > 180 messages. What kind of email account are you using Mail with?
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