Problem with incoming email......

[neilmac]

Any of you good people have any ideas how to get round this......

Using Microsoft Outlook from Office 2000, running Windows XP.

When downloading incoming messages it stuck at message 6 out of 10. Read the first 5 and tried to receive again. Now it sticks at first message trying to come through and the messages behind it are building up and can't get through!

If I reduce the size of incoming messages allowed to just 1kb then they all get blocked and I get a list of who's sent them - they all look like spam so I won't be losing anything important if I could delete them before they try and arrive. Is this possible? or what else can I do?

Thanks in advance.....

>>> Edited by neilmac on Sunday 18th January 18:43

[simpo two]

neilmac said:

I won't be losing anything important if I could delete them before they try and arrive. Is this possible? or what else can I do?

I believe you need to run a beastie called Telnet, but I'll leave it to the experts to tell you how to use it! This allows you to see a list of e-mails at the server and delete them.

[dern]

If your email provides has a web email interface you can use then use that to delete the offending email or...

http://manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/pop3.htm

Mark

[simpo two]

dern said:

<a href="http://manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/pop3.htm">http://manual.liquidweb.com/chapter3/pop3.htm</a>

Yep, that look familiar - and it works if you don't get a keystroke wrong (no backspace). On mine it was just Start/Run/telnet

>> Edited by simpo two on Sunday 18th January 21:29

[obi]

Yep you could use telnet but not too user friendly..
Try getting a free copy of a program called "mail washer". It logs into your mail account and shows you all your mails and allows you to preview part of the mail. From that via an easy to use "front end" you can delete the mail and if it is spam you can "bounce" the mail back. Any mails you want to keep you just leave them alone, "process" and when you send and receive in your mail programme they come through.
Hope that helps...

>> Edited by obi on Sunday 18th January 23:09

[neilmac]

Thanks for all you help, tried the Telnet thing but it's too technical for me!!

I went through BTopenworld site instead and got to the offending email and deleted it that way - don't know which was the bad one just deleted any spam and all seems OK now.

Thanks again