email overload ?

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Icy

Hello all ,

Can anyone help with the following problem I'm having downloading my emails
..

I've been on holiday and when i synchronised to collect my mails , I've
found that I had 700 (bloody spammers) waiting for me .

But due to my 56k modem Icannot get them to fully download and every time
the computer stops downloading ( usually at 400 ) when I resynchronise it
starts at no: 1 again so i'm stuck in a vicious circle .

can anyone help ?

PS the isp is freeserve

Thanks
Glenn
 
I've been on holiday and when i synchronised to collect my mails ,
I've found that I had 700 (bloody spammers) waiting for me .
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PS the isp is freeserve
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http://fsmail.freeserve.com/

If Freeserve webmail is anything like other ISP's webmail, you'll be
able to read and delete them all on-line without downloading them to
your PC. Leave the ones that you DO want, then check your email as
normal and only those ones will be downloaded.
 
Icy said:
Can anyone help with the following problem I'm having downloading my emails

I've been on holiday and when i synchronised to collect my mails , I've
found that I had 700 (bloody spammers) waiting for me .
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It depends on your email client, but you could set it to download just
the headers, then delete the messages which are obviously spam before
setting it back to download bodies as well.


Tim
 
Use Freeserve's web mail and delete them directly from the server. Then
when you syncronise, there are less e-mails to retrieve.

~ Adrian ~
 
Adrian said:
Use Freeserve's web mail and delete them directly from the server. Then
when you syncronise, there are less e-mails to retrieve.

~ Adrian ~
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Now this is why I like my DSL and Outlook 2003 and its fantastic junk
filter. It has a built in list of keywords which it checks against message
headers and deletes any email that matches two or more (depending on the
settings). Only once since installation have I lost a genuine email. I
consider that a pretty good record.

--
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
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Amethyst said:
Now this is why I like my DSL and Outlook 2003
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Shouldn't it be outlook 2004 considering it's gunna be released nearer the
end of this year?!

Either that or they could call it horny office to go along with the longhorn
theme...
 
Hello all ,

Can anyone help with the following problem I'm having downloading my emails
.

I've been on holiday and when i synchronised to collect my mails , I've
found that I had 700 (bloody spammers) waiting for me .

But due to my 56k modem Icannot get them to fully download and every time
the computer stops downloading ( usually at 400 ) when I resynchronise it
starts at no: 1 again so i'm stuck in a vicious circle .

can anyone help ?

PS the isp is freeserve
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As others have already said, use Freeserve's web wraparound to access mail.

Another option is to grab a copy of Popcorn from
http://www.ultrafunk.com/products/popcorn/

It allows you to read the headers whilst they're still on the server, and
delete them b4 you d/l them locally. It'll also fit and run from a floppy, so
you need never be without your e-mail.

It's the best damn software in the world - imo
 
Icy said:
Hello all ,

Can anyone help with the following problem I'm having downloading my emails
.

I've been on holiday and when i synchronised to collect my mails , I've
found that I had 700 (bloody spammers) waiting for me .

But due to my 56k modem Icannot get them to fully download and every time
the computer stops downloading ( usually at 400 ) when I resynchronise it
starts at no: 1 again so i'm stuck in a vicious circle .

can anyone help ?

PS the isp is freeserve
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http://www.kempston.demon.co.uk/smb

Download POP3 Scan Mail, Install it.
Then download the VB40032.dll file and extract that into \Windows\System32

Configure your account into POP3 Scan mail, hit connect. Delete the emails
you don't want.
 
Jeremy said:
Don't want to start an advocacy war here, but I recommend you
take a look at Mozilla for email. The junk mail filtering is
Bayseian (i.e. statistical) rather than just making comparisons
to keywords. You spend some time "training" it to know what you
consider to be spam, and then it works brilliantly.

I've had ~100 spams since Monday, and have only had to manually
delete two or three.
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Sorry use Outlook for work - need to keep to office protocol.

--
Cassandra
Card carrying member of the Fresh Start Club 'The Undead Are People Too!'

Reply address is fake. Please send all praise, abuse, insults, bequests
of £1million to cassandra (at) craigy34 (dot) freeserve (dot) co (dot)
uk. Change the obvious to the obvious.
Private requests for assistance will not be acknowledged. Please post all
correspondence to the group so that all may benefit. Thank you.
 
Amethyst said:
Now this is why I like my DSL and Outlook 2003
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Yep and most of the BIG e-mails I get are from virus infected outlook
users.. You do realize almost ALL e-mail clients have had filters for
years?
 
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