Learn to Love Your Mail

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Learn to Love Your Mail

• Tech Talk
• Feb. 22, 2005

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Webmail The Painless Approach
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Too full to delete?
When the quota is nearly full, deleting large
messages can cause problems.
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Fixing the two-phase delete
This sends deleted messages straight to the Great
Beyond. Use with care.
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Managing the Sent Folder
Useful if youre sending large attachments.
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Count Messages in a Folder
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Check your Personal Information

• If your return address isnt correct, you wont
  able to send messages to the on-campus lists.

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Add your own Highlighting
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Add a New Filter
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Inbox Weather
Dont forget to click Show
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Turn off the Compose Window
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Things You Can Delete

• Spam rule
• Spam folder
• OUTBOX
• DELETED

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Improving Life with Eudora
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Quota Problems in Eudora

• The Easy Solution
• Add a local archive folder
• Drag messages from the Dominant folders

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Quota Problems in Eudora

• The Complicated Solution
• Switch from IMAP to POP
• Downloads mail from the server to the hard drive
• Move your existing mail first

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POP vs. IMAP The Biggest Decision Youll Ever
Make

• POP
• On your hard drive
• No quota
• No backup
• Faster
• Single location

• IMAP
• On the server
• Restricted space
• Nightly backup
• Slower
• Accessible anywhere

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The IMAP Location Prefix

• Hides unsightly system files

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Setting Message Labels
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Showing Message Labels
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Automating Message Labels
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Checking Message Delivery

• Delivery problems

• To make it clearer

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Checking Message Delivery

• The Outbox shows delivery status