Stop incoming email after a certain point

[Lynda]

Does anyone know how to put a cap on how many emails I can receive? In other
words, if I were to want no more than 50 emails, how do I set that up? I
have searched everywhere. When I had XP, it held a certain amount and then
would bounce back to sender saying "mailbox full". Is this possible for
Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium 64 bit?




"THANKS A BUNCH"

 

[Guest]

No.

Mailbox full refers to the space at your ISP which holds the mail for you.

 

[Charlie Tame]

What if message #51 was from your bank or something important? Are you
having problems with junk mail?

"Bouncing" email is not as smart as it sounds because if junk mail is
the problem you can bet most of it has real email addresses that have
been stolen from places like this newsgroup, and so the guy who gets it
is NOT the guy who sent it.

When you had XP did you also have a different Internet Service? Such
limits could be imposed by an ISP's mail server, but I bet they rarely
get asked to provide less space.

You could try setting up some message rules to filter incoming mail into
different folders if that would help.

 

[Patrick Keenan]

Does anyone know how to put a cap on how many emails I can receive? In
other
words, if I were to want no more than 50 emails, how do I set that up? I
have searched everywhere. When I had XP, it held a certain amount and
then
would bounce back to sender saying "mailbox full". Is this possible for
Windows Mail on Vista Home Premium 64 bit?

I think you misunderstand. "Mailbox full" messages don't relate to the
*total number* of messages, they relate to the *total size* of the messages
in the mailbox.

The message also doesn't come from your email client - the client is only
showing to you a message from the email *server*, which really doesn't care
what client you are using.

So you can't change this in Windows Mail or Outlook Express or Outlook or
Thuderbird, Entourage, etc., because they don't control it. The server
does, and it is beyond unlikely that you have full control of an email
server.

Contact your mail administrator or ISP if you wish to have the size of the
mailbox reduced. They may or may not be able to do this, but it will
almost certainly be an unusual request. Most people want more space, not
less.


HTH
-pk