Outlook Express is bad?
I don't know about Eudora but Pegasus is missing one critical feature
that Outlook Express has.
XX = any 1 or 2 digiti number.
Leave a copy of messages on server -- They likely have this
Remove from server after XX day(s)
You tell me of an email client that has all the below features and I will
switch to it.
Would be even better if it runs on both Windows and Linux.
---------------FEATURES--------------
Folders and Subfolders
Each level collapsable and auto expand if an unread message filters
into there.
Rule Filtering
Leave copy on server
for XX number of days
Sortable columns - To - From - Subject - Receive date.
Customizable Display filter - Only show unread. or unread and flagged or ..
Search filter through subfolders
show messages with attachments and
from Bubba Smith and
to my 3rd email address and
after this date and
before this date and
with the blah in the subject.... you get the idea.
Check email every XX minutes.
Selectable account checking.
I setup account A, B and C but don't check account B during
check default check all email
Some method of displaying and saving to file the raw messages as they
were RETR - retrieved from the server. Headers and all.
A method of importing such raw files into the email client as any other
message.
Preview Pane can actually be turned off.
Text only viewing mode is selectable
Would like to have a HTML indicator.
But even OE doesn't have an indicator.
Selectable Read Receipt response.
Always return
Ask me first
Never return
Selectables
[ ] Save a copy of sent messages
[ ] Send immediately
[ ] Reply to messages in format that was sent
Include message in reply - Either always or selectable
Either no address book or settable to manual only.
I don't do address books
View plain text messages in font of my choosing OR a fixed width font
Selectable Default mail sending format
and can alter format while composing the message
Signature file capable
I have html set as my default and typcially
change it to plain just before composing.
Lucius L. Hilley III
----- Original Message -----
From: <eugtk at yahoo.com>
To: "EUforum" <EUforum at topica.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 24, 2003 09:43 AM
Subject: RE: [OT] postmaster at netbet.com: Delivery Status Notification
(Failure)
--- Al Getz <Xaxo at aol.com> wrote:
> Hello there,
>
> With all this talk about Emails, Topica
> unsubscribing, and
> SoBig, Im starting to understand how i sometimes get
> emails
> from myself 
I wonder how they forge the return
> address?
>
> I havent gotten an email supposedly from myself in a
> long time,
> but recently had gotten a few. Could it have
> something to do
> with Topica trying to iron out some bugs or
> something like that?
Not likely.
> The emails are usually some kind of sales pitch, but
> nothing
> harmful so far ( event_KnockOn(h_Wood) ).
You don't actually open those e-mails, do you?!?
Anyway, there are basically 3 types of e-mail going
round:
1. "Bugs" which often contain only an html link to an
image stored somewhere. The link usually contains
your address or an identifying code so that the
spammers
can confirm that they used an active address, and that
there's someone there who reads the mail.
2. Ads for useless stuff. These often serve the same
purpose as #1.
3. Worms/Viriii - such as sobig.
In cases 1 and 2, they use addresses harvested off the
internet, and often forge the sender's name from that
same list. Some are so careless they use the same name
for both sender and receiver.
In case 3, your name just happens to be on whoever's
computer has the sobig worm. So when an e-mail
bounces, either because it was sent to an invalid
address, or - as we're seeing in the last few days -
because it was sent to a valid address where the
mailbox was overflowing, then it gets bounced back
to the forged sender (you).
The only way this is ever going to stop is if Outlook
Express is banned. There are lots of good
alternatives,
such as Pegassus and Eudora.
Irv
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