Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Firkin-- I had a strange mail occurrence a couple of weeks ago--all the messages in a couple of mailboxes disappeared although the number of messages shown on the title bar was correct. I know it's elementary, but I restarted and repaired permissions, and all has been well since. I suppose chunking the .plist for Mail might be worth considering. Ric Carter On Oct 30, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote: > 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 >>>> >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> 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 >>> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >> >> >> > Alastair > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >