Pimmy - email client

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Lefty Mills

I receive over 100 pieces of spam each day, some of it includes viruses
and other malware. It seems ridiculous to me to download this stuff onto
my harddrive, even to a "trash" folder. I was using Mailwasher which
allowed me to read the first part of a message while it was still on the
server, and delete the bad stuff. But Mailwasher started acting up -
giving me a message time after time when I checked my email "No such
host. Ensure that the POP3 server is correct". Eventually I would get it
to work, and then I would have similar problems with my email program -
Foxmail. These are 2 excellent programs - the problem is probably with
my internet provider, or firewall or anti-virus program.

Foxmail (a program from China - nothing to do with Mozilla) has "remote"
which shows for each email -from- subject- date- size - while on the
server, but does not show the first part of messages - at least I cannot
see how. It is possible to delete emails at the server level.

Thunderbird is a disappointment - as far as I can tell there is no remote
mail management.

Pimmy works beautifully and it does not have problems recognizing my
server. However, after downloading an email to the main window and
reading it there, I wish to move it to another folder such as archive or
trashcan. This can only work for me if I am connected to the internet.
Does anyone know how to move emails from the main window in Pimmy when
not on the internet?

PIMMY
http://www.pricelesswarehome.org/acf/programs/0563-PW.php

L.
 
I have been using Pimmy for a few years Lefty & agree with you
about Pimmy .

The Pimmy man reads these post's , so he may also reply .

I have mine set up the same as your's by the sounds .

When I get my emails ( they are still on my ISP"s server , not my HD
) I immediatley click on Move to > Archive the emails I want to
keep . ( this then puts them on my HD )

The unwanted email , I click on the big black button on the top of
the screen & this deletes them off the ISP's server .

To my knowledge emails viewed on the ISP server , cannot be moved
when offline .
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I receive over 100 pieces of spam each day, some of it includes
viruses and other malware. It seems ridiculous to me to download this
stuff onto my harddrive, even to a "trash" folder. I was using
Mailwasher which allowed me to read the first part of a message while
it was still on the server, and delete the bad stuff. But Mailwasher
started acting up - giving me a message time after time when I checked
my email "No such host. Ensure that the POP3 server is correct".
Eventually I would get it to work, and then I would have similar
problems with my email program - Foxmail. These are 2 excellent
programs - the problem is probably with my internet provider, or
firewall or anti-virus program.
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You might also take a look at the free version of JBMail
http://jbmail.pc-tools.net/

It is designed to do precisely this, just show the contents of a POP3 inbox
but does not download anything to the hard drive unless explicitly
instructed to. So this is a very safe way to deal with both junk mail and
mail containing viruses or other malicious code. Nothing is downloaded, and
you can delete mail right off the server.

The next version will contain vastly improved junk mail filtering
capabilities, using real time black lists.
 
Lefty Mills said:
Does anyone know how to move emails from the main window in Pimmy when
not on the internet?
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Pimmy can read emails online or offline. When you configure a "mailbox"
(red icon) you are using online features. In this case you MUST be
connected to Internet.

If you want to read emails off line you have to create a "folder" and copy
/ move emails in the folder.

When you open the mailbox you can view the list of the messages, view the
preview (200 lines), delete messages without downloading or copy / move
messages in the folder.

In addition Pimmy can automatically download emails with KB limit and has a
very powerful filter engine (rules on header fields, attachment names,
body, etc). The filter engine is optimized to not download body of messages
if not requested.
 
Lefty said:
I receive over 100 pieces of spam each day, some of it includes viruses
and other malware. It seems ridiculous to me to download this stuff onto
my harddrive, even to a "trash" folder. I was using Mailwasher which
allowed me to read the first part of a message while it was still on the
server, and delete the bad stuff. But Mailwasher started acting up -
giving me a message time after time when I checked my email "No such
host. Ensure that the POP3 server is correct". Eventually I would get it
to work, and then I would have similar problems with my email program -
Foxmail. These are 2 excellent programs - the problem is probably with
my internet provider, or firewall or anti-virus program.
Click to expand...

Have a look at Magic Mail Monitor, which is excellent

http://mmm3.sourceforge.net/
 
The unwanted email , I click on the big black button on the top of
the screen & this deletes them off the ISP's server .
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In my opinion, the big black button on the top of the screen represents a
bomb, like the ones thrown by anarchists in 1930's movies. <smile>
L.
 
Livewire said:
Likewise eprompter (www.eprompter.com) which checks at regular intervals
for mail on up to 16 accounts, POP3, Hotmail, Lycos etc. You need a
separate client to download and process it.
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I'm not sure what you're talking about here. ePrompter can be used as a
client. You can forward, reply, even compose new email using it. You don't
need a seperate client program along with ePrompter.
 
I'm not sure what you're talking about here. ePrompter can be used as
a client. You can forward, reply, even compose new email using it.
You don't need a seperate client program along with ePrompter.
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You do if you don't want the eprompter advertisement added to the emails
you send.
 
Lefty Mills said:
Thunderbird is a disappointment - as far as I can tell there is no remote
mail management.
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SNIP

Thunderbird can do this function. Just go to Tools-Account Settings-Server
Settings & select "Fetch headers only" for your accounts. It will then
download only the headers & you will be given the option to download the
full emails when you select them.
 
SNIP

Thunderbird can do this function. Just go to Tools-Account Settings-Server
Settings & select "Fetch headers only" for your accounts. It will then
download only the headers & you will be given the option to download the
full emails when you select them.
Click to expand...

Unfortunately, this is only half the job. Tbird provides no way that I
can find to delete the unwanted messages from the POP server. This
alone makes it a non-starter for me.
 
[email protected] said:
When I get my emails ( they are still on my ISP"s server , not my HD
) I immediatley click on Move to > Archive the emails I want to
keep . ( this then puts them on my HD )
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Thank you. This solves the problem for me. However, the default for
"move to" is "incoming mail", so I move the ones I want to keep to
"incoming mail". This seems easier to me.

L
 
SNIP

Thunderbird can do this function. Just go to Tools-Account Settings-Server
Settings & select "Fetch headers only" for your accounts. It will then
download only the headers & you will be given the option to download the
full emails when you select them.
Click to expand...
Here's what I mean when I say "remote mail management" with Pimmy.
All heads for messages on the server are shown. Based on the subject and
sender, I can delete messages right off the server.
For messages that I am not sure about, I can read up to 200 lines of text
without downloading the message to my hard drive. Based on what I read,
I can delete those messages off the server.
If messages from friends are less than 200 lines, I can read them and
delete them from the server, without downloading them to my hard drive.
The genuine messages left are easily downloaded to my hard drive.

L
 
You do if you don't want the eprompter advertisement added to the emails
you send.
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Neither does it offer proper address book functions etc so I don't see
it as a full client. It's a great prog, though.
 
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