Re: Why do local programs not see all the messages in the webmail inbox?
- From: Ciarán Ó Duibhín <no.spam@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2009 15:16:42 -0000
Thanks to everyone who responded. I held off replying until I had something more to say.
Well, the problem was caused by the way I set up my account on the two machines. My ISP gives out email accounts of the form firstname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx . Where Windows Mail on my new Vista machine (to take one program as an example) has "Account/Properties/Servers/Incoming Mail Server/E-mail username" I had firstname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx , whereas the corresponding thing on my old (Win95, I'll admit it!) machine was just set to surname.isp.com. Result: on Vista all the messages arriving for anythingbutmyfirstname@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx went missing - they were mostly spam. But they are visible on my webmail inbox, and kept accumulating there until things ground to a halt. Remove the "firstname@" on the Vista username and everything is fine, all emails arrive at Windows Mail (actually I look at them first with MailWasher and remove the spam). For some unknown reason (but I'm not complaining!) the change also clears up problems of timeouts in Windows Mail or MailWasher contacting the POP3 server.
I believe I followed my ISP's instructions in the way I had set things up on the Vista machine, and I am querying that.
Thanks again,
Ciarán Ó Duibhín.
"Ciarán Ó Duibhín" <no.spam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:O8t6o50dJHA.5428@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I'm sure this must be a common question, but I'm stumped!
I'm just moved to a new Vista machine from a machine running a very old version of Windows, and I see a big change (for the worse) in how my email is being handled.
My way of working with email is to run a local program MailWasher, which lists (without downloading) all the messages in the server's inbox - the same messages you see through webmail - and offers easy ways of filtering and deleting them, so you can go on to download what's left to another local program, Outlook Express. That's how it worked on my old computer, no problems.
On my new machine, however, MailWasher and also Windows Mail don't see ALL the messages in the webmail inbox. Just now, for example, they are see 14 messages, whereas webmail is seeing about 120 in the inbox. The server has marked some of the 120 messages in the inbox as spam, but there is no correlation between this marking and their invisibility to local programs.
My first question is: what is causing programs on my new machine not to see all the messages in the server's inbox? There are several differences from the old machine - the OS (Vista vs an old Windows version), the connection (broadband vs dialup), there could be pre-installed apps on my new machine that I haven't yet discovered, etc.
My second question is: how do I keep the invisible messages from accumulating and clogging the server's inbox? I know I can delete them in webmail, but I would much prefer to use a local app like MailWasher, but it can't see them!
Thanks for any idea,
Ciarán Ó Duibhín.
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