Re: MacGroup: Mail and my ISP

["Jeff @ SLYN Systems" <slynsystems1985@juno.com>]

Thanks so much Anne.
Being more of a PC person, it's different in that world.  Am on this list
to build Mac awareness.
Am about to try and hook up a Mac to the net but haven't made the time
just yet.  Maybe a weekend project.
Sorry I wasn't any help but glad the others have been so helpful.
Am still looking for a Tuesday night available I can make a UG meeting.
Regards,

Jeff Slyn, Owner
SLYN Systems & Peripherals
(502) 426-5469
serving Kentuckiana clients 7 days a week since 1985!


On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 13:31:27 -0400 Anne Cartwright <cartwrig@aye.net>
writes:
> 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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