Outlook Express email-cancellating incomming messages

[Guest]

Is it possible to cancel out or delete incomming messages so they won't keep
tryng to come in? I have over 1800 messages trying to come in since it's been
months since I've been in Outlook Express. It will take 6 months for these to
come in. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Is it possible to cancel out or delete incomming messages so they won't
keep
tryng to come in? I have over 1800 messages trying to come in since it's
been
months since I've been in Outlook Express. It will take 6 months for these
to
come in. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

Outlook express by default is set to check for messages on a mail server,
download them, and delete them from the server.

If you go, in Outlook Express, to Tools, Accounts, select the mail account
and choose Properties, you can de-select "include this account when checking
for mail or synchronizing". Click OK back to the Outlook Express .
This will prevent OE from getting messages on that account. You might want
to disconnect from the internet *before* you start up OE, though, since it
will try to connect till this setting is changed.

One thing you can do is to review the messages via the Web email client your
mail service provides and delete them there. This will reduce the number of
messages OE has to download, but can be slower than just letting OE get
them.

Sometimes you must use this method if there is a damaged message that OE
can't download. What can happen there is that OE doesn't finish the
conversation with the mail server - it chokes on the damaged message and
never tells the server to delete the messages it's taken. The result is
that the next time you connect, it re-downloads the same messages and chokes
on the same message. You have to use the Web client to delete that
message.

HTH
-pk

 

[POP]

Is it possible to cancel out or delete incomming messages so
they won't keep
tryng to come in? I have over 1800 messages trying to come in
since it's been
months since I've been in Outlook Express. It will take 6
months for these to
come in. Any suggestions will be greatly appreciated!

No, you really can't stop them. The easiest solution is probably
to let them start downloading at the end of the day and leave the
computer running. Then in the morning you can delete them all
en-masse.
Or, you could simply go to your ISP and set up a new email
address and start over again. That would stop a lot of the spam
for at least a little while for you<g>. I'll be they're all
spam, right? Not unusual for a lot of people.

Depending, your ISP -might- be willing to delete them for you,
but fewer and fewer are willing to go that little extra step
anymore. Do not ask by email; use the telephone instead.

If there's any other way, I'm not aware of it.

HTH,
Pop

 

[thecreator]

Hi Rose,

Yes there is. Don't open Outlook Express. Now log into your E-mail
Accounts using the Web via your Web Browser. Go to the Inbox and then delete
all the E-mails you don't want to download into Outlook Express. If you want
to delete all, just Select All and click Delete.

 

[Guest]

Rose, I can go online to my ISP webmail and simply login and select all mail
and delete them, without even opening any of them... I can delete 50 at a
time... maybe worth seeing if you can go to your mail online and doing the
same - once you have deleted them, go to your account settings and there is a
box where you can click "delete messages on the server every XX amount of
days, but you need to download them first or they will sit on your isp's
server.

 

[Yves Leclerc]

I use PopTray. This is a email preview utility which can let you see the
headers before you download them in OE.

Also, I use this with SpamPal. SpamPal is a spam email filtering (flagging)
utility which would flag most spam emails. Then, I can tell PoyTray the
"delete" the SpamPal flagged email off the server.