Bill, in answering Anne, you helped me , too. I read all this before, but never really knew what it meant. Mine was set to "never!!!" So I suppose all my mail is still happily sitting on the server. By now it must be bulging . Marta On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 10:52 America/New_York, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 8/26/03 23:37, Anne Cartwright wrote > >> How do I get my e-mail messages removed from my ISP after I have >> gotten them? I know there is somewhere you are suposed to check (or in >> this case maybe uncheck) something about keeping messages on service >> but I can't find it. I am using OS X 10.2.6. >> > > Do you want to move them to your computer, so you can keep them? > > If so, you should be able to go to Mailbox -> New Mailbox... and > create a > mailbox On My Mac, and then move the mail from your server to the new > mailbox. > > If you simply want to delete them, go to Mail -> Preferences, click > Accounts in the toolbar, select your account, and then click the Edit > button. Click the Special Mailboxes tab, check both the "Move deleted > messages to the Trash Mailbox", and "Store deleted messages on the > server > checkboxes", and then change the "Permenantly erase deleted messages > when" to something reasonable, like one week (so that you have a chance > to recover a mistakenly deleted message). > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
