Fwd: [X-Apps] Mail App. 1.2.3 (v551) - Fetch Loop

[Andrew J. Yon III]

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>>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 06:18 PM, Andrew J. Yon III 
>>> wrote:
>>>   One poster, and I apologize to that person for losing the orig. 
>>> post, suggested that it might be  timing out and that I should use 
>>> entourage. I have it but prefer mail.app to it. I have gotten my 
>>> mail that way but really want to fix mail.app. I have looked to see 
>>> if the server was actually timing out and believe it is waiting on 
>>> mail.app to finish. I let it sit all day with only mail.app running 
>>> and set to check mail at 5 min. intervals, it finally did retrieve 
>>> all 2609 emails plus 46 more that came in before it had finished.
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>> On Wednesday, February 19, 2003, at 09:35 PM, Thomas Karns wrote:
>> You may have already done this.  Go to 
>> mail->preferences->accounts->edit [the account that is giving you a 
>> problem]->Advanced.  There you will find the options for when to 
>> delete mail from the server.  You can set it to remove immediately.  
>> There is a button that says remove now, that I have never needed.  
>> Maybe that will work for this problem account.  You also may be able 
>> to have your service provider empty your box for you.  Good luck.
>>
>> Tom K.
>>
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> Thanks for your response. Yes, I had tried that and it worked for 
> those emails, but as soon as new ones came in, it started the cycle 
> again. Those in turn keep repeating till I go back to prefs and 
> manually delete them . Prefs are set to delete right now . The 
> downloads are extremely slow. Not exact, but about 3 emails per > minute.
>
> Andy3
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I searched every folder concerning mail.app and found in the mailbox 
folder, two jpg files. I cannot figure out they got there, but now 
after removing them, the app works great. It is quite snappy and no 
more problems. Thanks to all who applied to my original post to this 
problem.

Andy3