Weird email problem.

[QueBert]

I have a lot of emails on my shell (in the inbox) from ages ago. For awhile my PC was down so I wasn't able to download my emails. I would check at a friends house from time to time by telnetting in and reading them with Pine. Now, when I check my email with Eudora, it doesn't see the old ones, I have hundreds. I was wondering if reading with pine puts some soft of flag on there that keeps Eudora from seeing it. I don't think it's that, I'm guessing it's because they are older. I was thinking of telnetting in to my shell and downloading the inbox off of there and putting it on my HD. Would it be easy to import the file directly into Eudora though?

thanks

 

[ojai00]

Well, unless you keep a copy on the server, you will download only new e-mails when you set up your account on another system (or telnetting in your case). After you read those e-mails, you can't download them again on your home computer because it's not new anymore. Am I making sense? I hope so... Hope this helps

 

[QueBert]

yes, you made sense. but what I'm trying to say is these emails haven't ever been downloaded. While some of them have been viewed, but some I've never even opened even on my shell itself. It's confusing me, I have some I'd like to save, only a few. I guess my last option is going to be to telnet to my shell, manually delete the ones I don't want, and then forward the ones I want back to myself *shrug*

thanks for the help though

 

[corkyg]

Leaving mail on your ISP server for a long time is not good. Many will automatically trash them when they reach a certain age. Eudora will also do that depending on your option setup.

 

[stndn]

if you are using Pine, there is an option to flag the messages as new. that way, you can download the "new" messages using eudora or something ...

anyways, the option is off by default. so you have to go to pine setup first
when you get into pine, go to Setup > config
under advanced configuration, check enable flag cmd and enable flag screen implicitly
while you are there, you may also want to tinker with other options if you feel like it...

anyways, once that's done, save and exit. then go to your message inbox, and use * to flag the messages. you can choose to flag the messages as new or some other (there are other settings to select all and flag all, but i forgot how ... just follow the on-screen help and see)

hope it works

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