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On Sunday, October 22, 2000, 5:13:43 AM, A. Curtis Martin wrote:
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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. :-(
I would agree that this is a bug. It is a very huge problem for me,
because I might easily get 200-300 emails each day. The attachments
generally are important, but they are also generally of lesser
priority than customer inquiries coming in via email. With a modem
connection, if there is a 1 meg. attachment at the beginning of a
queue of 150 emails, then the entire mail process is slowed
tremendously.
It makes no sense to offer the option of not downloading larger
attachments, if the messages are deleted after download of the header.
(Of course, I had to write to my boss yesterday to ask her to
retransmit a the document she sent me to work on, after
accidentally deleting it).
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.
Thanks for the suggestion, but this would be untenable with the amount
of email I get.
> 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.
Hmm. I can see this working, as I tend to filter many emails by sender
- but I would have to set a lot of filters with this option.
-Abigail
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