Eliminating addresses from forwards

[Liz]

Hi, I sometime like to forward cute things that are forwarded to me by e-mail.
I also have some saved in files. I would, however, like to be able to eliminate the other addresses that accumulate when one has been circulated alot.

Could someone give me the technique for achieving this?  

[Xairbusdriver]

Not sure what email program you are using. In Eudora, all the 'junk' is put in the 'body' of the Frowarded message. I simply delete the part(s) I don't want to send ( usually a lot of it, if it's a "Fwd: Fwd: Fwd:..."! ). It's a little work, but I would certainly appreciate more people doing it.

[Liz]

I am currently using Thunderbird. Haven't tried to get rid of those addresses with this one but did on the other e-mail program. I only deleted the whole e-mail. And I know I couldn't have done anything wrong.

[kimmer]

In Thunderbird, try hitting REPLY (not FORWARD), and then going down and cutting out all the junk (highlight the portions you want to dump and hit "delete"). You can also highlight the whole message, go to the FORMAT menu and select DECREASE INDENT (you can do this more than once), and you'll stop forwarding all the hideous "quote" indentations that often make cute things just flat out annoying and unreadable.

Before you hit send, highlight the address in the TO line and change it to whomever you want.

The other alternative is to copy/paste the message into a text doc and spend hours removing all the junk. That's a lot of work unless it's really priceless.

Have fun!

[weldiger]

Hmmmm - unless it is really worth reading, and sharing, I trash all forwarded mail.  If it is worth reading again, I don't mind copy - paste into new document.  I only copy text, not all the other addresses.  Then I use 'find' and get the > that is used on forwards, and replace with one space. Takes all of a minute on long ones.
Then I send, and only to one person at a time, or use blind cc if I want to send to many.

If something really bad or good is supposed to happen to me if I don't send it - I usually don't send it.

To each his-her own - your mileage may vary.
For good one0liners, I file away, and occasionally use in my email signatures.

such as:

 God gives the nuts, but he doesn't crack them. --
Unknown(German proverb)

I know some that are already cracked.
weldiger
 

Shalom
weldiger

[sunset]

Hi Liz,

I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but this is what I've always done:  drag to highlight the part of the message you want to copy, excluding all those addresses.  This can include graphics as well as the text.  Then just hold down the Apple key and tap the 'c'.

Click in the message area of a 'new message' window and paste what you've just copied, Apple/v.  Just type in the person's address and the Subject line.  It's easy and quick.  

Laurel

[Liz]

QUOTE(sunset @ Jul 24 2006, 01:12 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Hi Liz,

I'm not familiar with Thunderbird but this is what I've always done:  drag to highlight the part of the message you want to copy, excluding all those addresses.  This can include graphics as well as the text.  Then just hold down the Apple key and tap the 'c'.

Click in the message area of a 'new message' window and paste what you've just copied, Apple/v.  Just type in the person's address and the Subject line.  It's easy and quick.  

Laurel

Laurel,

Those shortcuts will be handy. (Kimmer) gave me instructions, and after several tries, I was finally successful in getting rid of some of those "bulky" addresses. (I attribute a lot of my ineptness to my advanceing age and being relatively new to computing)

My current project is eliminating the (forward) addresses from my webmail files. Space is limited and fills up fast without diligence.

I've been thinking about copying them, deleting the files, then creating all new files. Will that work or is there a better application for that as well?

[Gregg]

QUOTE(Liz @ Jul 24 2006, 07:42 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I've been thinking about copying them, deleting the files, then creating all new files. Will that work or is there a better application for that as well?

You mean deleting the addresses?

I'm not sure what webmail files are (pardon my lack of knowledge), but I suspect just deleting addresses from the header of a file will not significantly reduce the size of the file. To really save space, the files should be compressed. Then if you need to look at one, it has to be expanded (that is, un-compressed), then deleted when you're done so as not to take up space again.

I use Aladdin's DropStuff to compress and their Stuffit Expander to "decompress". (er- expand. Sorry for mixing terms!)

[Liz]

QUOTE(Gregg @ Jul 24 2006, 08:51 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

You mean deleting the addresses?

I'm not sure what webmail files are (pardon my lack of knowledge), but I suspect just deleting addresses from the header of a file will not significantly reduce the size of the file. To really save space, the files should be compressed. Then if you need to look at one, it has to be expanded (that is, un-compressed), then deleted when you're done so as not to take up space again.

I use Aladdin's DropStuff to compress and their Stuffit Expander to "decompress". (er- expand. Sorry for mixing terms!)

Hi Gregg,

I did mean deleting the addresses. When I opened a webmail folder ( wrote files before) and deleted the addresses, opened again to see what changed; nothing had changed. The address are all still there.  Sooo, what's next?  

We'll "talk about" compressing and expanding another day.

[jepinto]

Liz:  Are you saving the sent items to your web space?  In the sent mail folder?

If you want to save the items you've sent, you can open each message and do a Save As... and download the message to your computer.  And then delete the messages from your webmail folders.

Is there a reason you are using the Bellsouth webmail interface instead of using Mail to download your email?  (I think I remember you are on Bellsouth..)

[Liz]

QUOTE(jepinto @ Jul 24 2006, 11:41 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

Liz:  Are you saving the sent items to your web space?  In the sent mail folder?

If you want to save the items you've sent, you can open each message and do a Save As... and download the message to your computer.  And then delete the messages from your webmail folders.

Is there a reason you are using the Bellsouth webmail interface instead of using Mail to download your email?  (I think I remember you are on Bellsouth..)

What I'm talking about is forwards. I have an aunt who sends these deliteful forwards that may have been to three or four other groups of people before she forwards on to her group. They have to be extremely desirable for me to keep. Then, there's the stuff from everybody else.

I have learned to delete the address from those I forward. What I'm trying to do now is to delete them from the forwards I already have in folders, in order to free-up webmail space.

My daughter mailed a picture of her new house, but I got a message stating that I didn't have enough space to receive it; to delete anything I don't want to save in order to receive it. No! I don't save anything anywhere but in folders.      

If you are talking about Apple mail (I guess that is what it's called); it hasn't worked since I've had the computer. If it was disabled by a previous user or I need some expert assistant to activate it, I'm not sure.

You are correct that I use Bell South. BS is my internet provider.

[kbeartx]

QUOTE(Liz @ Jul 24 2006, 02:14 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

What I'm trying to do now is to delete them from the forwards I already have in folders, in order to free-up webmail space.

I don't know that that can be done.  

What you're wanting to do is edit your saved mail msgs and then re-save them, yes?

I depends on the way the webmail 'app' that BS uses was written [whether it was designed w/ this feature or not].

I suspect not.

Since you use webmail, your saved msgs are all on the server, and not on your computer.  

If you want to free-up some space, you're gonna hafta save the mail as text files on your Mac and then delete the saved msgs on the server.

You might be able to do this via drag-and-drop [try that first, it'll be less work], or by copying-and-pasting the parts of the msgs you wanna save into a word processor file [one or many].

 - KB

[Liz]

QUOTE(kbeartx @ Jul 24 2006, 04:19 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}>

I don't know that that can be done.  

What you're wanting to do is edit your saved mail msgs and then re-save them, yes?

I depends on the way the webmail 'app' that BS uses was written [whether it was designed w/ this feature or not].

I suspect not.

Since you use webmail, your saved msgs are all on the server, and not on your computer.  

If you want to free-up some space, you're gonna hafta save the mail as text files on your Mac and then delete the saved msgs on the server.

You might be able to do this via drag-and-drop [try that first, it'll be less work], or by copying-and-pasting the parts of the msgs you wanna save into a word processor file [one or many].

<-added the closing "quote" tag.

It appears I began writting above the end or your message.    
Noticed it when previewing my reply.


I also have ThunderBird. That is what I use now, almost exclusively; don't have to have an active browser with TB. IE gets Bell South mail which means starting IE up to delete the messages.

[kbeartx]

I realized just now another reason why your original idea probably won't work:

some email systems that place various limits on accounts, restrict the number of msgs that can be stored, so your plan to reduce the size of many of your saved msgs will not diminish at all the number of msgs.

QUOTE

I also have ThunderBird. That is what I use now, almost exclusively;

This makes me think that maybe we're all making too much of this; you probably can have Thunderbird download all your saved msgs and delete them from the server, thus freeing up space in your webmail account.

Not being a Thunderbird user, I'll leave it to others who are, to give you specific instructions for this [in all other email programs I've used, it's accomplished via a setting in the prefs].

 - KB

[kelly]

Setting up (Apple) Mail in Mac OS X

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=106683