Beauregard T. Shagnasty wrote:
LMH wrote:
So what are my options for deleting manually? Some of my accounts have
no yahoo id, meaning there were created for access only by an email
client.
So you are saying some of these accounts are not Yahoo mailing addresses?
Then you will have to deal with them at whatever server they belong to,
such as the ISP, where they exist. Yahoo is not involved with them.
I suppose I could switch seamonkey to keep messages on the
server for say 30 days. Would that delete everything older than 30 days
the next time seamonkey checks for messages?
Not dependent on SeaMonkey. Check with the FAQ or support at Yahoo and the
other places where you mail accumulates.
I guess I could do
something like that and then change it back to "until I delete them". It
seems like a button that would delete everything on the server older
than some data would be a nice addition, but I guess such things depend
on how many folks thing that should be a priority.
There are many ways to handle email. Don't expect any one client to be
able to address every circumstance. Find out if you have webmail access to
these non-Yahoo accounts. Where are they, by the way?
I'd suggest you find out how to work manually with each of your mail
servers, and then don't let yourself get in this situation in the future.
Please don't top-post. Thanks.
Sorry about the top-post, I guess I didn't really understand what the
term meant and had to look it up. I thought it meant to reply out of
order in the thread, meaning not to the last in sequence.
These are all yahoo accounts. I use yahoo as my hosting service to host
my website and email. All of the accounts are on my domain, which is
hosted by yahoo. I manage the creation of email accounts by logging into
my yahoo website management site.
When I create an email account, there are some options for access.
Basically they are three options; access only through yahoo web mail,
access through web mail and an email client, and access only with an
email client. If I pick an option that supports web mail access, I have
to associate the email address with an existing yahoo id. Then when the
user logs in with their yahoo id, they have access to their mail.
If I pick the option to only use a client, then the account is not
associated with a yahoo id and there is no way to access it with web
mail (at least that I know of). In fact, there is a disclaimer when you
select that option and you are informed that you will never be able to
access this email with web mail, but will always need a client. I loathe
web mail interfaces, so I never use them unless there is no other
option. I am required to have an admin account that is associated with a
yahoo id, and I also have some that I can use when I am traveling. All
others are client only.
What exactly happens under the hood if you have your client set to only
keep messages on the server for 7 days? Does the client send instruction
to the server to delete the older messages, or does the client modify
account settings on the server and the server takes it from there? Does
changing this setting actually cause the deletion of older messages? The
post by MCBastos seems to indicate that it may.
I understand that no software application meets all possible needs, but
often there are features of applications that I am unaware of, or
misunderstand the use of, so that is why I asked.
LMH
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