[HM] Huzzah! (was: Can't open picture attachment)

[Duane Murphy]

--- At Mon, 15 Mar 2004 17:06:35 -0600, Denise wrote:

>Duane, it looks like you win the gold star!
>
>Just to try it, I changed that setting to the max:  9999K, and found that
>there were more than 40 messages left on the server!  All well over 100K!
>That's what I get for not paying attention to relative-size details.  Since
>most of the emails I receive are in the 1-3K size, 100K sounded like a lot.
>Silly me!
>
>When these are done downloading from the server, I will look at their sizes,
>and gauge my setting accordingly.
>
>I would like to give stars to this entire list.  You have helped me out more
>times than I can tell, and I cannot thank you enough.  I sometimes feel
>quite isolated in this Winworld, but you are priceless.

I don't know what EMail program you are using. You shouldn't need to
change the setting. There should be an indicator somewhere that the
message was too large and to tell it to download individual message. That
way you can screen them before deciding that 35M is OK for a note from
your dentist. ;-)

 ...Duane