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Re: email question (was The HTML Experiment)



As Bob has pointed out most e-mail programs have the option of leaving the
incoming mail on the server for a specified time. Eudora is no exception.
Just go to the "Checking mail" item under the Settings command of the
Special menu and there you can have the mail kept on the server for a
specified number of days.

Easy. I have done it this way for months.

Hugh




As long as there's a discussion about email program choices...

Both Netscape email and Eudora seem to have one serious problem - but
perhaps there's a solution someone could tell me about.

I read my mail from both my office and my home. I am not always able to
read all my mail at a single sitting, and I often want to leave messages
sitting there so that I can reply later. I imagine that this is very
common.

Since these mailers both download all the email to local disk before
reading, I am left with two options:
1) Leave a copy of the emails on the central computer, and when I am done
reading go into another mailer on the central computer and delete the ones
I have just read... if I can remember which ones they were.
2) Don't leave a copy on the central computer, and have saved emails
stashed randomly about in computers that cannot reach one another.

Neither of these options is the least bit desirable. Is there a solution?

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--James McLean
jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu
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UC San Diego, Chemistry



Hugh Haskell
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Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to, Windows because they
have to..
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