On Tue 01 Nov 2016 at 11:52:50 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Tuesday 01 November 2016 05:45:39 Brian wrote: > > > On Mon 31 Oct 2016 at 21:08:08 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: > > > Brian composed on 2016-10-31 22:27 (UTC): > > > >But we are still in the dark. And it does not appear you have > > > >investigated what mailfilter can do if your bandwidth is contrained > > > > > > Another mistake. I supposed you meant mail filter rather than an app > > > named [M]ailfilter. Now that I'm apprised of mailfilter I will need > > > to investigate, once I've encountered of an available round tuit. It > > > sounds like something overdue for many moons. > > > > mailfilter deletes mail on the server. One criterion is size, which > > can be set to a threshhold. > > No, it doesn't IF your server is shentel.net. When I called to complain, > they explained that many people use pop3, but expected the message to > still be there when accessed by imap. So I am forced to login to their > webmail server, and delete old mail that way. Which I am now doing > nominally daily.
That is partly why I invited the OP to say a little something about how he got mail. > I am all automated pop3 here. But I will say their spam trapping is much > better than the average. So much so that I have discontinued using > mailfilter. IPS's filtering can go awry. I prefer to make my own mistakes. The person responsible is close at hand and can be re-educated. -- Brian.
