Hi, Brian, All this mail business now opens totally new vistas. Everybody has an answer, but all the answers pertain to different aspects. Of course, everytime someone says something, I try to check it out. This is the way I learn. Apparently Insightbb. does not remove mail for three months. I called them, but they don't know either. I drew this conclusion, because I found mail sitting there since May. What happened to the mail before that I have no idea, since I did not remove any ever, did not even have an idea that it was sitting!. But somehow it did get removed, otherwise I would have mail from a couple of years. Apparently, as Bill suggests, it depends entirely on the server, how mail is deleted, and then there are your personal options which give you days, weeks or a month to get rid of deleted or sent mail. You, of course , always have the option to delete it right away, by doing it under edit, so it won't even get into the delete box. Marta On Thursday, Aug 28, 2003, at 08:13 America/New_York, Brian wrote:
> 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: owner-macgroup at erdos.math.louisville.edu > [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>. > > Marta | 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>.
