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From: (Gina Heffernan)
Subject: Re: Deleting Email at the Server
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2000 15:27:16 -0500
References: <00dd01bfcfe2$33a9fc80$a7d3533f@adeller>


Alfred Eller wrote:
>
> I have been getting quite a few bounces because someone's mailbox was
> full, I always assumed they were on vacation, or just not checking
> their mail. If it is allowed to stay in the mailbox, even after it is
> downloaded, the mailbox could be overflowing no matter how often you
> check the mail.

I was not very clear in the message I sent this morning. I have never filled up
my space on an email server, tho' it is possible to do so. I merely do not let
my mail be deleted until I have downloaded it with Netscape onto MY own
computer. I can download it onto the computer at work or onto my husband's PC,
sort through it to see if anything is urgent, and then when I get to my own desk
at home; I can download it again and it is deleted from the server. That way I
can save anything that is really important - like messages from new-found
cousins - on my own computer, but I also get to check my mail throughout the
day. It beats having to forward "save worthy" stuff to myself.
>
> BTW, how do you get a notice that the mailbox is full if you do not
> check your mailbox?
>
I don't think you do. My cousin has had a full mailbox at Yahoo for about three
months now. When I asked her about it, she said she couldn't remember her
password. Yahoo has no way to tell her that her mailbox is full and she has no
way to get her password since Yahoo has an old address. If a person only gets
one or two emails a week, it could take a while to fill up their alloted
"space."

Gina

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