My main system was down for a while with a fried motherboard, and in the mean time I was accessing mail from a secondary box (also using KMail), with the setting "leave fetched messages on the server" selected (I don't run my own mail server, but read from my ISP's POP server). When I got my machine back together again and fired up KMail for the first time, there was naturally a huge pile of mail to download... but every time since, I'm still getting all that mail downloaded again!
How do I get out of this, I'm drowning in e-mail!
My suggestion would be to get into your webmail system and delete the files there. Make sure your webhost isn't set to keep messages as well. -- kai ponte www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
time, there was naturally a huge pile of mail to download... but every time since, I'm still getting all that mail downloaded again!
How do I get out of this, I'm drowning in e-mail!
Set KMail to "Delete messages from Server" when it checks mail, for at least one check. -- ---------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Wilson Cedar Creek Software http://www.cedarcreeksoftware.com
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:46, Kai Ponte wrote:
My main system was down for a while with a fried motherboard, and in the mean time I was accessing mail from a secondary box (also using KMail), with the setting "leave fetched messages on the server" selected (I don't run my own mail server, but read from my ISP's POP server). When I got my machine back together again and fired up KMail for the first time, there was naturally a huge pile of mail to download... but every time since, I'm still getting all that mail downloaded again!
How do I get out of this, I'm drowning in e-mail!
My suggestion would be to get into your webmail system and delete the files there. Make sure your webhost isn't set to keep messages as well.
Thanks, that worked (over 5000 messages, 200 at a time). But I don't see why KMail would behave this way when I went back to the machine that did *not* have "leave fetched messages on the server" checked... -- ====================================================== Glenn Holmer (Linux registered user #16682) ====================================================== "Just don't panic and calm down. KDE isn't gone, and SUSE isn't dead." -Sonja Krause-Harder, SUSE Research & Development ======================================================
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 06:40 pm, Glenn Holmer wrote:
My suggestion would be to get into your webmail system and delete the files there. Make sure your webhost isn't set to keep messages as well.
Thanks, that worked (over 5000 messages, 200 at a time). But I don't see why KMail would behave this way when I went back to the machine that did *not* have "leave fetched messages on the server" checked...
Evil government conspiracy? Seriously, I have no idea. I just remember something like that happening once on another mail system where the "keep messages" flag magically got stuck on the server. -- kai www.perfectreign.com linux - genuine windows replacement part
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