Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]After a month-long spate of lost e-mails, I found out that my ISP had turned on some junk mail "filters" which let all the junk mail through, but filtered out some important messages- especially if they came from a business or university, it seemed. I was able to access the filters through the web site that allows checking my mail over the web (instead of POP ) and was able to turn them off. Allen >Hi Alastair, > >First of all, you should always be able to see >what Mail is calling junk by looking in the Junk >folder. Mail marked as Junk will stay in the >folder for 24 hours. > >Secondly, the message header you mention is >obviously Cyrillic (at least it is on my Mac!). >There are several problems with the extended >character set used to generate these characters, >to do with fraudulent use. It may be that your >ISP is filtering these messages out before they >get to you. > >I'm sure Brian knows much more about all this >than I do - he can probably help. > >P. > >******* >Paul Hardy Carter >www.paulhardycarter.com >******* > >On 30 Oct 2005, at 10:49, Alastair Firkin wrote: > >>For some reason, I'm losing e-mails: I suspect >>most of them are being filed in the junk folder >>of my "mail" programme on the mac, but the loss >>seems to be random. Any thoughts or comments on >>how I can stop this very embarrassing leakage? >>I keep having to ask for re-sends. The last >>e-mail was headed >> >>???????? ???? >> >>But I can't find it anywhere now >> >>Alastair >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Leica Users Group. >>See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> > > >_______________________________________________ >Leica Users Group. >See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information