thats the point alan, netscape clearly has an option to 'when deleting a
message locally, remove it from the server' in the mail server>edit>pop
preferences yet this doesn't appear to work for me, thats all. a new
client shouldonly be downloading a few messages because thats all i keep
locally , the others i assumed were being deleted from the server as
indicated by the option, apparently not
up to recently i've been keeping my messages on the serveras there
weren't many and it was a useful form of backup, now i've joined a few
lists the total number of messages has shot up, which is why i've
noticed that messages aren't being deleted, i'll decide soon what i'm
going to do, leave then or lose all of them, if i choose to backup is
there a particular way or do i just save the file pairs in my
netscape\..\mail directory?
anyway i think i've dragged this topic pretty wide of the list, so i'm
going to cease my own input
thanks for getting back to me
bascule
p.s.
i complained direct to txu blah blah and guess what?
they complained about the complaint!
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> bascule....you can't write to a mail server, so where do you
> think the info as to what your last downloaded email was, is
> stored? On your computer, saved somewhere by the mail
> client. So when you change mail clients, the new client has
> no idea about what you've alread downloaded, so it downloads
> everything available on the server.
>
> Why do you keep mail on the server, your isp will not like
> that eventually, unless you purge the server every so often by
> allowing it to kill the mail afterbyou've downloaded it.
>
> Alan
>
> bascule wrote:
> >
> > 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
