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| From | Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | uk.comp.sys.mac |
| Subject | Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... |
| Date | 2025-08-14 09:13 +0100 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <107k5qg$c8dc$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <30tkQ.55370$91K.49978@usenetxs.com> <b8b6e54e-09ac-4865-86f4-68ecdd1d266f@scorecrow.com> |
Bruce wrote: > On 05/08/2025 20:33, Another John wrote: >> On firing up, Mail froze! THEN I noticed that the Activity window is >> saying >> "Downloading 1,215 messages" - so it's not frozen, it's furiously >> downloading >> I know not what. 1,215 messages from where?!?!? > > It might just be the email headers, not the whole message. This may depend on whether you are using POP3 or SMTP. If POP3 - and you have the account on two separate machines - then you must make an explicit choice about what to do with downloaded emails. I'm not familiar with Apple email clients so this might not be easy. In principle you can accept the default which is to delete every email from the server immediately it has been downloaded. Perversely this usually works by downloading al the emails, then going back and deleting them all - so if for any reason the download of ALL new emails fails then it might start again - and get stuck. But this won't work across two computers. Given that you use two computers, you probably have set one or both to retain emails on the server for some chosen period of time. So the server could be full. If IMAP - unless you explicitly choose to delete emails the server will fill up. This usually requires two steps: mark for deletion, then purge. If the synchronisation between a mail client and the server fails in some way, then the whole process might start again, checking (and perhaps downloading) all the messages that are on the server. -- Graham J
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STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-05 19:33 +0000
Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Bruce <07.013@scorecrow.com> - 2025-08-06 00:56 +0100
Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-08-14 09:13 +0100
Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Another John <lalaw44@hotmail.com> - 2025-08-20 15:59 +0000
Re: STILL messing around trying to fix Mail ... Graham J <nobody@nowhere.co.uk> - 2025-08-20 18:14 +0100
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