When working through a large number of e-mail messages, one
technique which has helped me is to limit the size of the
messages which can be downloaded.
In keymail, go to the setup menu and choose receive options. Set
the maximum size to something small, like 5k or 10k. Now,
during download, files which are larger than the size you set
will trigger a prompt that the e-mail is larger than that size.
You then have options to delete the message, download it, skip it
or see the first 10 lines.
If you skip or delete the large messages, you effectively thin
out the material to be downloaded at the moment. The smaller
messages come through; and while there may be a lot of them, they
don't take up as much room or as much time to download. You
allow the BN, so to speak, to drink out of a regular water faucet
rather than asking it to drink out of a fire hose. Once you've
been through the short messages (and probably deleted a lot of
them), you can go back and reset the maximum size for automatic
download to something larger. Or you can leave that setting and
just hit enter when prompted that the e-mail is larger than the
size you set.
Using this technique, the larger messages don't slow down the
initial download, and available disk space is less of an issue.
When the larger messages trigger the prompt about their size, you
can hit i for information and, if the subject line tells you that
you don't want that message anyway, you can delete it without
waiting for the whole message to download.
Steve Speicher
421 S. 9th Street, Suite 205
Lincoln, NE 68508
Tel.: (402) 475-8355
Fax: (402) 475-8359
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rebecca Ilniski" <[email protected]
To: <[email protected]
Date sent: Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:17:26 -0400
Subject: [Braillenote] Handling large amounts of email on the
braille note
Hi everyone. I was away last week and had a lot of email to
download. When
I went to check it in keymail it took a long time to go from
message to
message. I also got an error message that said the operation was
successful. I had to delete some of the things in keylist and
recopy stuff
in order to fix it but I lost all of my email in the progress.
How have you
handled large amounts of email and is there an easy way to do
this using the
bn? Thanks.
Rebecca Ilniski and Nuncio
facebook: http://facebook.com/rebeccai5
twitter: www.twitter.com/bookworm1999
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