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From: judith murphy< >
Subject: Re: [NEWGEN-L] Email Trouble Helppppppppppp
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 19:23:36 -0500 (EST)


This is to help those who aren't getting all their email messages and who
also have problems with their servers cutting them off because of too many
messages.

When a person isn't getting all of there email messages many times it is the
way you have your different switches/preferences/options set -- for instance:

Many will have an option of how many to receive at a time -- some people put
25, some 50, some 500 -- when the mail program reaches that number you have
as your default, it stops getting mail and waits x number of minutes before
it checks and gets more -- change that number to a high number.

Many times a system will time out when trying to get a large message --
which it will keep trying again and again to get, in the meantime messages
are coming in and they are backing up:

Some of these switches have options so you can skip the big messages -- if
your system is timing out while trying to get a big message, mark this
switch block so it will bypass that and get all the smaller ones --
otherwise the messages will keep backing up and soon you will have too many.

Many servers have specifications on the NUMBER of messages you get -- you
can reduce this number by going to the DIGEST instead of the LIST of the
different lists you have subscribed to -- just unsubscribe then subscribe
using the -D instead of -L. (for example -- using the -l you might get 50
messages but using the -D you would only get 1 or 2)

But remember that some servers also only allow a certain number of megs of
messages (doesn't care on number -- just total amount stored on their server
until you download them to your computer) -- so you MUST check this often
and if going on vacation unsubscribe or stop temporarily until you come back.

Hope above helps someone,
Judy M.

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