[AT] Lost list mail

[Steve W.]

Bill Bruer wrote:
> Charlie & others who experience lost list messages:
> 
> If you read your email using an email client on your local machine (Outlook, 
> Outlook Express, Windows Mail, Thunderbird, etc) you are probably expecting 
> *all* the mail that comes to your mailbox on the server to be delivered to 
> your client when you connect to the server.  This was the standard for most 
> of the history of email.
> 
> Nowadays, however, many of the Internet/email service providers are giving 
> us extra mail "services" that are managed *at the mailbox*.  Such services 
> have default settings that your client won't even know exist, much less be 
> able to manage.  One of the major services is spam filtering.  There are 
> some others.  You may have to log onto the email service via their web page 
> in order to see the services and configure the settings that now govern 
> which mail is actually sent to your email client.
> 
> I stumbled on this several months ago.  I've had the same email account for 
> a long time and always managed all my email on my desktop computer.  I've 
> received the nice messages telling about the expanded services but ignored 
> them because I didn't need the services.  One day I decided to log into my 
> email account via the web page just to make sure I could if I needed to.  I 
> found a large number of "lost" emails sitting in the spam folder, including 
> some from the ATIS list.  I didn't even know I had a spam folder on the 
> server.  Why were some regarded as spam while most weren't?  I don't know, 
> but none of those messages were ever going to be sent to my computer.  I had 
> to override the default settings to stop anything from going to the spam 
> folder or being stopped by any other filtering.
> 
> I don't like others deciding what I don't need to see.  You might want to 
> check & make sure you aren't being taken care of in this way.
> 
> Bill Bruer
> Murfreesboro, TN
> bill_bru at bellsouth.net
> 
> 

If you want to see ALL the stuff on your ISPs server there is a neat
program to allow that. It is called MailWasher. They have a free and a
paid version. They both work the same BUT the paid version allows more
than one mail account, so if you have a normal ISP mail account, a Yahoo
account, G-Mail, or more than you may want the paid version.
If you only use one account the free version will do the job.

Then call your ISP or if they have web access shut off ALL the filtering
they have. The catch is that you will get a LOT of extra junk mail as
well as the stuff you want. This is EASY to fix in MW though. You set up
filters that will delete the crap and pass any good mail through. It
sounds like a PIA but it is actually easy to do.

http://www.mailwasher.net/


-- 
Steve W.