Thanks so much Anne. Being more of a PC person, it's different in that world. Am on this list to build Mac awareness. Am about to try and hook up a Mac to the net but haven't made the time just yet. Maybe a weekend project. Sorry I wasn't any help but glad the others have been so helpful. Am still looking for a Tuesday night available I can make a UG meeting. Regards,
Jeff Slyn, Owner SLYN Systems & Peripherals (502) 426-5469 serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985! On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:31:27 -0400 Anne Cartwright <cartwrig at aye.net> writes: > Thanks Bill, > > I was finally able to figure it out. You got me started in the right > > direction. I had previoulsy looked in Mail>preferenced, but never > clicked the Edit button. I thought that would just allow me to > change > the name or some similar type of 'editing." > > I wanted to delete the messages from server after I had looked at > them > on my computer. I had already created a mailbox on my computer, but > > the messages were continuing to remain on my server, even after I > had > trashed and deleted them (deleted all in the trash). > > What I needed to do was go to Accounts, and after selecting my > account, > click on the Advances tab. There I found the statement I remembered > > seeing in the past. "Remove copy from server after retrieving a > message:" and I set this for "After one day". I also clicked on the > > Remove now button to get rid of everything that had been > accumulating > on my server. So starting today stuff will only hang round there for > 1 > day. > > And thanks to John R. (profile) too, I had neglected to mention that > I > was using Apple's Mail not Entourage. > > Jeff Slyn: you might want to look into the mail software you are > using > and see how you have it set. Stuff may be building up at your ISP. > Although from what I read in the newspapers I believe "the powers > that > be" (the proper authorities have the proper court orders) can > recover > most anything you ever wrote or received. Like they say, if you > don't > want the world to know, don't write it down (and that includes on > your > computer and via e-mail. > > Anne > On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:52 AM, 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 best thing to hit the internet in years - Juno SpeedBand! Surf the web up to FIVE TIMES FASTER! Only $14.95/ month - visit www.juno.com to sign up today! | 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>.
