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Subject: [Leica] Any help with Mac mail
From: firkin at ncable.net.au (Alastair Firkin)
Date: Sun Oct 30 11:14:30 2005
References: <43648425.7080108@planet.nl> <b8fc75c1526385ec7705ab5cfe2ba564@ncable.net.au> <eab6d48502cf554ec0172184a0313882@paulhardycarter.com> <p06230900bf8aad85ce63@[10.0.1.4]>

Its the storage on my computer which is failing: the mail is coming in 
ok. I am at a bit of a loss. Storage does not seem to be the fault.

On 31/10/2005, at 4:09 AM, Allen Graves wrote:

> 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
>>>
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>
Alastair



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