E-mail help please

[KayGee]

I'm using Outlook Express.
My e-mail is constantly receiving and
never gets to 100% received. It just
is always coming up "receiving" and does
not finish. Advice on how to fix this problem
would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Rich Barry]

KayGee, what are you receiving, Spam, Microsoft Virus Messages?

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
KayGee, what are you receiving, Spam, Microsoft Virus Messages?

I don't know what is coming in.
It is just continually "receiving" hour after hour
with out stop. I can hit "stop" but then
when I go to "receive" it does
the same thing.
( I ran my Norton scan also and no viruses were detected.)
HELP! Thanks MUCH.

 

[Jim Keesling]

Call your ISP. I locked up my brother for 3 weeks once by sending him
an e-mail with a 25 MB file attached. After the ISP deleted that file,
the rest of his mail came tumbling through. Not sure if this problem
still happens, but worth a look.

Jim

| I'm using Outlook Express.
| My e-mail is constantly receiving and
| never gets to 100% received. It just
| is always coming up "receiving" and does
| not finish. Advice on how to fix this problem
| would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Guest]

-----Original Message-----
Call your ISP. I locked up my brother for 3 weeks once by sending him
an e-mail with a 25 MB file attached. After the ISP deleted that file,
the rest of his mail came tumbling through. Not sure if this problem
still happens, but worth a look.

Jim

| I'm using Outlook Express.
| My e-mail is constantly receiving and
| never gets to 100% received. It just
| is always coming up "receiving" and does
| not finish. Advice on how to fix this problem
| would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks Jim...I'll try what you suggested. Appreciate your
reply. KayGee

 

[R. McCarty]

Check your mail directly on the ISP's Webmail server. It
doesn't involve downloads. If any messages appear with
an excessive size, you can delete them using Web mail.
Check your ISP's home page and search for Web mail .
It should include a link. This is how users can access their
mail from virtually any PC with an Internet connection.

 

[MildBill]

Not all ISPs have WebMail access. This is a perfct application for Email
Remover 3, which allows download of only the headers, and lets the user
then delete messages as needed. A free download at
http://www.eremover.bizhosting.com/

Hope this helps, and, as always, your mileage may vary,

MildBill
--
"Stupidity cannot be cured with money, or through education, or by
legislation. Stupidity is not a sin, the victim can't help being stupid.
But stupidity is the only universal capital crime; the sentence is death,
there is no appeal, and execution is carried out automatically and without
pity." - Lazarus Long (Time Enough For Love, © 1973 Robert A. Heinlein)

While performing brain surgery on (him/her)self,

 

[Jim Britain]

I'm using Outlook Express.
My e-mail is constantly receiving and
never gets to 100% received. It just
is always coming up "receiving" and does
not finish. Advice on how to fix this problem
would be greatly appreciated.

That's a characteristic of one of our recent viruses -- OE bombs out
on downloads.

You need a secondary means of accessing your e-mail on your ISP. Many
people will recommend using WEB mail (if it is available).

However I found a thing called JBMAIL, which is small enough to fit on
a floppy or a flash drive.

It brings back one of those old-time e-mail features -- the ability to
check subjects, and from addresses prior to download.

Which means viruses and other crap can be deleted without downloading.
Makes spam filtering a fingertip no-brainer, with the additional
advantage of being able to get an unadulterated raw text copy from the
server, without OE OUTLOOK or Eudora mangling it first.

http://jbmail.pc-tools.net/

Even more beneficial if you're saddled with a phone link, slow
connection, or dinky screen PDA piece of crap.