Eliminating addresses from forwards

[RHPConsult]

IAW The Bear

I use SeaMonkey, which I surmise is not too different from its brother/sister, Thunderbird

First, I'd follow KBear's advice and get those messages off the server and onto your computer where you can easily give them the "treatment(s)" they deserve  

Then clean out your webmail "space". If BS is anything like SBC/ATT there are options for deleting all or some with relative ease.

As to sending people received mail without displaying the Manhattan Phone Book as prior addressees, simply follow the advice, discussed earlier.

1. Chose REPLY not FORWARD
2. Then, edit the addresses out – without trashing the message
3. Also edit out the "grace notes," such as MSN's dubious touting of its "services" – usually appended to the end of messages
4. Finally, be sure to delete your sender, and replace with the names you wish to address

COPY––>PASTE I have found, on occasion, doesn't work with the fancier mail which, sometimes carries music and pics as well as text.

Trying to encourage some of my more dense/clueless correspondents to delete the address + address + addresz trash that they regularly send along, I've composed a simple little pdf of easy instructions, on the chance they simply don't understand how vexing it is for many of us to receive such a message and how easy/polite it is to clean it up. That has been helpful for many casual technopeasants, IMHO.

[Gregg]

Just to emphasize the most important point... If these messages are only available to you while you are online (or connected if you prefer) then they are not on your computer's hard drive and you cannot edit them. They remain on your e-mail host's computers.

Find out how to download them from your e-mail program or browser to your hard drive, and then delete the old copies online. This will free up the available space for more e-mail messages. If you don't find a way to download them, use copy and paste to make copies into a word processing file and save that on your computer.

[Xairbusdriver]

IAW everyone. Sounds like you are reading/replying/forwarding your mail with a web-based application/program ( a browser ). But even using that method should still enable you to delete message once you have read them. There should be a check box or button on each message tittle line that will enable you to delete that message, perhaps selecting more than one and deleting all of them at once.

Leaving these message on the Bell South area will certainly fill up your space ( which you can always buy extra! ). But unless your message contains supper critical, governmental secrets, there is no need to keep them on that expensive space. Further, If you don't keep that space as empty as possible, you may not even be getting all the message being sent to you. You are lucky that BS tells you that your mail box is too full and have not received all the incoming mail. Usually all that happens is that the sender gets a message saying your mail box is "over quota" and his message was not delivered. That's very frustrating to the sender, believe me.

You really should be using Mail/Thunderbird/Eudora/etc. to download and read your email. All these programs can be set to delete the messages form your SB space after they are downloaded to your computer. That way, you'll never have to worry about running out of space there. And the program will be much more usable for creating/editing messages than any web based service.

I suspect that the failure of MAil is simply because you have not changed the settings in it. You mentioned that this is a "used" computer; it probably has had the email info deleted from the settings in Mail. All you need to do is look at the prefs and find the places where you will enter the same info that BS wants you to use. Once that is done, you can use Mail or any other email program to access your mail. I'll let any Mail user describe where those prefs are and help you gather the required info ( probably "SMTP server name", your USer name, and your password; all of which you are already using, one way or another. )

[jepinto]

Liz had some bad advice from a BS tech.  The tech told her to Check "Leave messages on server" when Liz called for help in setting up Thunderbird.  We fixed that last night. But why would TB put system setting under View :sheesh:

Now she needs help figuring out why Jag won't let her set up a new user..... think Repairing Permissions might help?  How about getting rid of the Deleted Users folder in ~/Users?

[kimmer]

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But why would TB put system setting under View

Ummm ... it's not.

It's under EDIT/PROPERTIES or

By clicking on the acct name over on the left hand side, you'll be taken to this window:



Where it says "View settings for this account".

I'm glad Liz has this straightened out.