In most cases ISP's have a space limit set for users...I know for my hosting
company it is 50MB...my site files and such take up 40 or so MB leaving me
with 10MB for mail (for which I have 6 or 7 POP3 boxes setup)...since you
said that you had thousands and thousands of messages I am kind of surprised
that your ISP did not inform you, you were going over your limit...that is
assuming you have one, which if you do not is also surprising in itself.
I know it seems like a pain, but you should consider yourself lucky...also
unless there is really no way to avoid it you should try not to keep your
mail on the server.
Just my $.02
Fritz
----- Original Message -----
From: bascule <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 12:28 PM
Subject: [newbie] off topic (but not really)
> this is only vaguely related to this list but i figure a lot of people
> here use netscape and i have a question:
>
> i use netscape 4.72 128 bit in windows98 (modem doesn't work in linux
> but i have strong suspicion this is a hardware fault caused by lightning
> strike!)
> i have 'leave messages on server' option on preferences ticked with
> 'delete messages on server if deleted locally' selected also (this is
> not an option if the former is not checked,
> however messages on my isp server are not being deleted, ifound out when
> i tried netscape 6 pre release and it wanted to download thousands and
> thousands of messages!
>
> is this a bug perhaps, any one else had this, i am in communication with
> my isp as well but i wondered if any one else had ever come across this,
>
> if i'm not careful then i could be responsible for people on the list
> receiving 'message bounced' emails if i use up my message quota,
>
> not wishing to cause annoyance i am trying to nip this in the bud while
> i can.
>
> bascule
>
>
>
