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Hi

New Thunderbird user.

I have it set on all of my accounts that mail over 50kb is not
downloaded. When I find a mail that is over 50kb but that I do not want
to have it, in my other email client (Courier) I could choose to delete
the message from the server without downloading any of it. It seems that
in Thunderbird I have to download first before deleting. Is this
correct? Is there a better way?

TIA

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:51:23 GMT Paul Blarmy <>
wrote:

>Hi
>
>New Thunderbird user.
>
>I have it set on all of my accounts that mail over 50kb is not
>downloaded. When I find a mail that is over 50kb but that I do not want
>to have it, in my other email client (Courier) I could choose to delete
>the message from the server without downloading any of it. It seems that
>in Thunderbird I have to download first before deleting. Is this
>correct? Is there a better way?
>
>TIA

To the best of my knowledge T'bird does not have a mechanism to delete
individual messages from the POP server. It is the lack of this feature
which has kept me from switching to T'bird as my regular mail client. I
can highly recommend Pop Peeper though, as I have been highly satisfied
with it after using it for a couple of months now. Wish it were ported
to Linux.

http://www.poppeeper.com/


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schrodinger's cat wrote:
> On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 17:51:23 GMT Paul Blarmy <>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi
>>
>> New Thunderbird user.
>>
>> I have it set on all of my accounts that mail over 50kb is not
>> downloaded. When I find a mail that is over 50kb but that I do not want
>> to have it, in my other email client (Courier) I could choose to delete
>> the message from the server without downloading any of it. It seems that
>> in Thunderbird I have to download first before deleting. Is this
>> correct? Is there a better way?
>>
>> TIA
>
> To the best of my knowledge T'bird does not have a mechanism to delete
> individual messages from the POP server. It is the lack of this feature
> which has kept me from switching to T'bird as my regular mail client. I
> can highly recommend Pop Peeper though, as I have been highly satisfied
> with it after using it for a couple of months now. Wish it were ported
> to Linux.
>
> http://www.poppeeper.com/
>
>

Another alternative is PopTray:

www.poptray.com

Its an outstanding little app.

Schrod, if you find a Linux equivalent, post it her, I would be most
interested. The lack of something like PopTray keeps me booted to XP
more then I might like.

Lee

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:07:42 GMT, Leonidas Jones wrote...

> Another alternative is PopTray:
>
> www.poptray.com

I think you mean www.poptray.org

Thanks for the response.

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On Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:01:03 -0400, schrodinger's cat wrote...

> To the best of my knowledge T'bird does not have a mechanism to delete
> individual messages from the POP server. It is the lack of this feature
> which has kept me from switching to T'bird as my regular mail client.


Ditto here. Oh, and the annoying bug which puts a '>' mark before new
lines starting with the word 'From'.

> http://www.poppeeper.com/

Would ideally prefer to be able to do this within the one app, but
thanks for the link anyway, I'll give it a go.

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It's possible I'm a "johnny come lately" on this thread, and what I'm
contributing here has nothing to do with the discussion.

I use a program called Mail Washer. http://www.firetrust.com/
When I want to check my email, to see what is on the server, I use keys
Ctrl>Shift>M all together. That brings up Mail Washer with a list of
what's there. It also discerns, as it learns, what is spam and marks
it. If I see spam, I mark it, then download the mail to my computer.
The mail that Firetrust knows is spam is gone, as is what I've
designated. I can set the options to check it every 5 minutes, to any
time period. To me, it's the slickets little mail peeper/getter/spam
filter ever, and I would not be without it. I think it's from New
Zealand. Check it out.


WC

wc wrote:
> It's possible I'm a "johnny come lately" on this thread, and what I'm
> contributing here has nothing to do with the discussion.
>
> I use a program called Mail Washer. http://www.firetrust.com/
> When I want to check my email, to see what is on the server, I use keys
> Ctrl>Shift>M all together. That brings up Mail Washer with a list of
> what's there. It also discerns, as it learns, what is spam and marks
> it. If I see spam, I mark it, then download the mail to my computer.
> The mail that Firetrust knows is spam is gone, as is what I've
> designated. I can set the options to check it every 5 minutes, to any
> time period. To me, it's the slickets little mail peeper/getter/spam
> filter ever, and I would not be without it. I think it's from New
> Zealand. Check it out.
>
>
> WC


I use the same, and have for a while. It does more than simple stuff.
They have two versions, free and advanced.

Paul Blarmy wrote:
> On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 01:07:42 GMT, Leonidas Jones wrote...
>
>> Another alternative is PopTray:
>>
>> www.poptray.com
>
> I think you mean www.poptray.org
>
> Thanks for the response.
>

Thanks for the correction, that, of course, is exactly what I meant.
Thanks for reading my mind.

Lee

On Sat, 24 Sep 2005 23:08:08 GMT, Leonidas Jones wrote...

> Thanks for the correction, that, of course, is exactly what I meant.
> Thanks for reading my mind.

I knew you were going to write that

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