I haven't been keeping up with this thread, but if you don't remove them from the server, your mail box will fill up and start bouncing the newest emails back to the senders.
Brian O'Neal ComputerLand, Inc. 1421 Lexington Rd Louisville, KY 40206-1992 502-736-0079 Tele. 502-589-4721 Fax. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu] On Behalf Of Marta Edie Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:25 AM To: macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu Subject: Re: MacGroup: Mail and my ISP 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>. | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be September 23. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
