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Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how?

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On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 11:52:50 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:

> On Tuesday 01 November 2016 05:45:39 Brian wrote:
> 
> > On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 21:08:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote:
> > > Brian composed on 2016-10-31 22:27 (UTC):
> > > >But we are still in the dark. And it does not appear you have
> > > >investigated what mailfilter can do if your bandwidth is contrained
> > >
> > > Another mistake. I supposed you meant mail filter rather than an app
> > > named [M]ailfilter. Now that I'm apprised of mailfilter I will need
> > > to investigate, once I've encountered of an available round tuit. It
> > > sounds like something overdue for many moons.
> >
> > mailfilter deletes mail on the server. One criterion is size, which
> > can be set to a threshhold.
> 
> No, it doesn't IF your server is shentel.net.  When I called to complain, 
> they explained that many people use pop3, but expected the message to 
> still be there when accessed by imap. So I am forced to login to their 
> webmail server, and delete old mail that way. Which I am now doing 
> nominally daily.

That is partly why I invited the OP to say a little something about how
he got mail.

> I am all automated pop3 here. But I will say their spam trapping is much 
> better than the average. So much so that I have discontinued using 
> mailfilter.

IPS's filtering can go awry. I prefer to make my own mistakes. The
person responsible is close at hand and can be re-educated.

-- 
Brian.

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terminate unwanted bug mail how? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-31 19:40 +0100
  Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Sven Joachim <svenjoac@gmx.de> - 2016-10-31 19:50 +0100
    Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-31 20:10 +0100
      Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 20:20 +0100
        Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-10-31 23:00 +0100
          Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-10-31 23:30 +0100
            Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Felix Miata <mrmazda@earthlink.net> - 2016-11-01 02:10 +0100
              Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-01 10:50 +0100
                Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2016-11-01 17:00 +0100
                Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Brian <ad44@cityscape.co.uk> - 2016-11-01 17:50 +0100
  Re: terminate unwanted bug mail how? Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> - 2016-10-31 23:00 +0100

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