Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/10/30
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]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