NormCash
13-04-2004, 17:43
Some months ago, I asked for some help in finding an easy way to clear my primary email address of messages.
Like many others here, I found myself inundated with spam, so much so that I finally gave up on that email address and started using a new secondary one. Thanks to the fact that I'm now much more educated when it comes to how, when and to who I distribute my address, I'm glad to say that I no longer suffer the problem on my new address.
Unfortunately, I'm still having a major problem on my primary address - over 300 spam messages per day, all of which need to be deleted on a daily basis. I get around this in the way that was suggested to me on this very forum. I have broadband, and use Microsoft Outlook as my main email reader. I also have Outlook Express on my computer, which I've set up purely to pull in and automatically delete all emails on my primary account. Ideally, I'd like to simply delete this email address from my account, but as it is my primary one, I'm told that that is not possible. :(
Next week, I'm heading over to the States for a well earned 4 week holiday, but I'm left with something of a dilemma. I need some sort of automated method of deleting messages sent to my primary email address in order that my mailbox space does not fill up, therefore potentially preventing valid messages from reaching my good secondary address.
For the first 2 weeks of my visit Stateside, I'll have access to a relative's computer, but I really want to avoid the hassle of going on to NTLWorld's Web Mail page and deleting out pages and pages of shiat by hand (I'm sure most of you appreciate how long THAT takes!). For the last 2 weeks, I'm not sure when, if at all, I'll be able to access my account.
One thing that I've wondered is, do messages in NTLWorld's "Trash" folder count towards one's allowable space? I know that trashed messages in Yahoo Mail don't. If not, is there some sort of way that I can automatically redirect incoming messages to "Trash" rather than to "Inbox"?
There is one final question that I have that may make this whole email moot. Is an amount of storage space allocated to each email address in one's account separately, or does each user have "x" amount of total space spread across the whole account? (Does that make sense?). If the former is the answer, then I really don't need to worry about the junk coming in to that address accummulating.
Any suggestions on how I might solve this problem would be very welcome (but bear in mind that I'm not overly conversant with somewhat technical jargon or solutions).
Sorry about the long-winded nature of this post! :o
Like many others here, I found myself inundated with spam, so much so that I finally gave up on that email address and started using a new secondary one. Thanks to the fact that I'm now much more educated when it comes to how, when and to who I distribute my address, I'm glad to say that I no longer suffer the problem on my new address.
Unfortunately, I'm still having a major problem on my primary address - over 300 spam messages per day, all of which need to be deleted on a daily basis. I get around this in the way that was suggested to me on this very forum. I have broadband, and use Microsoft Outlook as my main email reader. I also have Outlook Express on my computer, which I've set up purely to pull in and automatically delete all emails on my primary account. Ideally, I'd like to simply delete this email address from my account, but as it is my primary one, I'm told that that is not possible. :(
Next week, I'm heading over to the States for a well earned 4 week holiday, but I'm left with something of a dilemma. I need some sort of automated method of deleting messages sent to my primary email address in order that my mailbox space does not fill up, therefore potentially preventing valid messages from reaching my good secondary address.
For the first 2 weeks of my visit Stateside, I'll have access to a relative's computer, but I really want to avoid the hassle of going on to NTLWorld's Web Mail page and deleting out pages and pages of shiat by hand (I'm sure most of you appreciate how long THAT takes!). For the last 2 weeks, I'm not sure when, if at all, I'll be able to access my account.
One thing that I've wondered is, do messages in NTLWorld's "Trash" folder count towards one's allowable space? I know that trashed messages in Yahoo Mail don't. If not, is there some sort of way that I can automatically redirect incoming messages to "Trash" rather than to "Inbox"?
There is one final question that I have that may make this whole email moot. Is an amount of storage space allocated to each email address in one's account separately, or does each user have "x" amount of total space spread across the whole account? (Does that make sense?). If the former is the answer, then I really don't need to worry about the junk coming in to that address accummulating.
Any suggestions on how I might solve this problem would be very welcome (but bear in mind that I'm not overly conversant with somewhat technical jargon or solutions).
Sorry about the long-winded nature of this post! :o