Email funny things

[caretaker]

Can anyone explain this, I have been using Incredimail 2 for some time now and yesterday it stopped sending and receiving mail, I looked in the help file and it said try going in to TOOLs and selecting authorize and it asked me for my email and password.
All was fine so I told it to check for mail.
Now the funny bit.
I got 721 emails.
They were all old ones and when it was working I know I deleted them all.
It gets worse.
I deleted 720 emails and then it stopped sending and receiving again.
Second time around, the same thing.
I have deleted Incredimail now and am using my Hotmail.
Reg

 

[Graham Orm]

Reg..............I have bad news for you. I have just deleted a 10 year old Hotmail account because of similar problems. Freezing, re-producing deleted mails, etc etc. It has got steadily worse, now in their wisdom they have re-named it Outlook and changed the format completely (why??). It has become even worse. I know I am not alone with this. I have been using Gmail for work for some time and have now started a separate account for domestic stuff. I can recommend Gmail having used it for a couple of years.

good luck, Graham.

 

[carlb40]

I have been using hotmail for years, but hate this outlook thingy. I have several disposable gmail accounts and may well go over to gmail properly.

 

[misterfish]

One of the annoyances I've come across with some previous free email offerings is that when deleted they don't actually delete but move thme to a 'trash' folder. I then have to actually etake the extra step of emptying the 'trash'

Misterfish

 

[cambournepete]

Gmail does that, but it's useful when you realise you didn't want to delete the mail.

I've used gmail personally for years and a few months now for work and I'd definitely recommend it.

 

[doorframe]

Caretaker, did you get this sorted? It's happening to a friends Incredimail as well. Non stop repeated spam. Delete them, but they just come back??

 

[dm65]

Sounds like these emails aren't being deleted after download - is there a setting in incredimail that allows you to leave mail on the server for a period of time

If you know the commands, you can telnet into your mailbox and delete them without using an email client - I often use this method to remove corrupt email that stops mail flow

Regards

Denis