Re: MacGroup: Mail and my ISP

[Anne Cartwright <cartwrig@aye.net>]

Thanks Bill,

I was finally able to figure it out. You got me started in the right 
direction. I had previoulsy looked in Mail>preferenced, but never 
clicked the Edit button. I thought that would just allow me to change 
the name or some similar type of 'editing."

I wanted to delete the messages from server after I had looked at them 
on  my computer. I had already created a mailbox on my computer, but 
the messages were continuing to remain on my server, even after I had 
trashed and deleted them (deleted all in the trash).

What I needed to do was go to Accounts, and after selecting my account, 
click on the Advances tab. There I found the statement I remembered 
seeing in the past. "Remove copy from server after retrieving a 
message:" and I set this for "After one  day". I also clicked on the 
Remove now button to get rid of everything that had been accumulating 
on my server. So starting today stuff will only hang round there for 1 
day.

And thanks to John R. (profile) too, I had neglected to mention that I 
was using Apple's Mail not Entourage.

Jeff Slyn: you might want to look into the mail software you are using 
and see how you have it set. Stuff may be building up at your ISP. 
Although from what I read in the newspapers I believe "the powers that 
be" (the proper authorities have the proper court orders) can recover 
most anything you ever wrote or received. Like  they say, if you don't 
want the world to know, don't write it down (and that includes on your 
computer and via e-mail.

Anne

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003, at 10:52  AM, Bill Rising wrote:

> On 8/26/03 23:37, Anne Cartwright wrote
>
> > How do I get my e-mail messages  removed from my ISP after I have
> > gotten them? I know there is somewhere you are suposed to check (or in
> > this case maybe uncheck) something about keeping messages on service
> > but I can't find it. I am using OS X 10.2.6.
>
> Do you want to move them to your computer, so you can keep them?
>
> If so, you should be able to go to Mailbox -> New Mailbox... and 
> create a
> mailbox On My Mac, and then move the mail from your server to the new
> mailbox.
>
> If you simply want to delete them, go to Mail -> Preferences, click
> Accounts in the toolbar, select your account, and then click the Edit
> button. Click the Special Mailboxes tab, check both the "Move deleted
> messages to the Trash Mailbox", and "Store deleted messages on the 
> server
> checkboxes", and then change the "Permenantly erase deleted messages
> when" to something reasonable, like one week (so that you have a chance
> to recover a mistakenly deleted message).
>
> Bill
>
>
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