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Subject: [Leica] Any help with Mac mail
From: ricc at mindspring.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sun Oct 30 13:35:36 2005
References: <43648425.7080108@planet.nl> <b8fc75c1526385ec7705ab5cfe2ba564@ncable.net.au> <eab6d48502cf554ec0172184a0313882@paulhardycarter.com> <p06230900bf8aad85ce63@[10.0.1.4]> <d726c198c628a8ac245b5ace2747f35f@ncable.net.au> <A3778E85-F7DD-4E9F-A90A-2AF1D28B9E99@mindspring.com> <7d3b4ed07e078a7fff3a9c999fcad1f3@ncable.net.au>

It's like the old preferences file.

/~user/library/preferences/com.apple.mail.plist

ric


On Oct 30, 2005, at 3:55 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:

> I'll try it, where is the .plist?
>
> On 31/10/2005, at 6:51 AM, Ric Carter wrote:
>
>
>> Firkin--
>>
>> I had a strange mail occurrence a couple of weeks ago--all the  
>> messages in a couple of mailboxes disappeared although the number  
>> of messages shown on the title bar was correct.
>>
>> I know it's elementary, but I restarted and repaired permissions,  
>> and all has been well since.
>>
>> I suppose chunking the .plist for Mail might be worth considering.
>>
>> Ric Carter
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On Oct 30, 2005, at 2:27 PM, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>
>>
>>> Its the storage on my computer which is failing: the mail is  
>>> coming in ok. I am at a bit of a loss. Storage does not seem to  
>>> be the fault.
>>>
>>> On 31/10/2005, at 4:09 AM, Allen Graves wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> After a month-long spate of lost e-mails, I found out that my  
>>>> ISP had turned on some junk mail "filters" which let all the  
>>>> junk mail through, but filtered out some important messages-  
>>>> especially if they came from a business or university, it  
>>>> seemed. I was able to access the filters through the web site  
>>>> that allows checking my mail over the web (instead of POP ) and  
>>>> was able to turn them off.
>>>>
>>>> Allen
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Alastair,
>>>>>
>>>>> First of all, you should always be able to see what Mail is  
>>>>> calling junk by looking in the Junk folder. Mail marked as Junk  
>>>>> will stay in the folder for 24 hours.
>>>>>
>>>>> Secondly, the message header you mention is obviously Cyrillic  
>>>>> (at least it is on my Mac!). There are several problems with  
>>>>> the extended character set used to generate these characters,  
>>>>> to do with fraudulent use. It may be that your ISP is filtering  
>>>>> these messages out before they get to you.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm sure Brian knows much more about all this than I do - he  
>>>>> can probably help.
>>>>>
>>>>> P.
>>>>>
>>>>> *******
>>>>> Paul Hardy Carter
>>>>> www.paulhardycarter.com
>>>>> *******
>>>>>
>>>>> On 30 Oct 2005, at 10:49, Alastair Firkin wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>> For some reason, I'm losing e-mails: I suspect most of them  
>>>>>> are being filed in the junk folder of my "mail" programme on  
>>>>>> the mac, but the loss seems to be random. Any thoughts or  
>>>>>> comments on how I can stop this very embarrassing leakage? I  
>>>>>> keep having to ask for re-sends. The last e-mail was headed
>>>>>>
>>>>>> ???????? ????
>>>>>>
>>>>>> But I can't find it anywhere now
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Alastair
>>>>>>
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>>>>>>
>>>>>
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>>>>
>>>>
>>> Alastair
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>
>>
>>
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>>
> Alastair
>
>
>
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