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On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 02:29:41 -0700, Abigail Marshall wrote:
AM> I know that under the Mail Management options I can set TB to delete
AM> messages from the server when they are downloaded, and I can also
AM> set TB to download only headers of messages that are over a set
AM> size. However, with this setting, if a large message is sent (for
AM> example, an email with a large attachments), TB deletes it from the
AM> server when it downloads the header.
I learnt this behaviour the hard way as you're doing now. Apparently,
your directive to delete messages on the server when downloaded is
non-selective and applies to messages even when only the headers are
downloaded. This is an old observation among members .... declared a bug
because downloading headers doesn't mean the message is downloaded ....
and yet nothing has been done about it, nor has it been rationalised. :-(
Because there's a work around, many, including myself have more or less
found sanctuary and have kept our mouths shut on this issue.
AM> What I would like is to be able to set TB to delete only those
AM> messages it has fully downloaded, and at the same time to download
AM> only the headers of the larger messages -- so I can get the small
AM> messages first and then go back later to retrieve the larger ones.
AM> Is this possible?
Oh certainly. I'll tell you how I personally do it.
First, I go into the account options and enable the 'leave messages on
the server' option and make the stay limit about 2 days. I leave the
download message size limit at the desired setting.
After two days the messages will be deleted from the server. This will
give you enough time to inspect the large message once you've received
the large message notification from TB!.
However there are two drawbacks to doing this alone. The first is that
you may have a limited mail box size and receive a lot of messages per
day, so your mailbox may become full with messages that you've already
downloaded. The other problem is that if you get a large message, you
have to weed through the large list of messages in the message
dispatcher to find the large one. Not to mention, the time it takes for
the dispatcher to read the headers before it displays the message list.
I therefore do this is as well:
For all filters that I created which download messages which will not
have headers, or will have headers that I'm not interested in, I go to
the actions section of the filter rule configuration and enable 'delete
the message from the server'. What this does is delete the filtered
message from the server on the next mail check. If I get a large message
alert, I run a check to delete the extra messages still on the server
and then run the dispatcher.
HTH.
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