Thanks, Bill, this helps a lot. Yes, mine is a POP account. So everything is on my Mac, despite the fact that the mailboxes are split. I guess, they made it that way in case one gets a .Mac account, which will allow stuff to be stored on the server. By the way, do you have a .Mac account? I thought of getting one, not that I need it at all, i just am always so curious about how things work and then it gives you virus protection and you can get albums etc for pictures in your iPhoto. To me this computer is a great source of wonderment and, yes, excitement and discovery. I get a "high" every time I make a new discovery. For movement impaired people like myself it is a great source of enjoyment, even the frustrations are in some way a "joyful challenge." Marta. On Tuesday, Aug 5, 2003, at 09:41 America/New_York, Bill Rising wrote:
> On 8/5/03 9:05, Marta Edie wrote > >> Maybe my questions were lost in Lee's massive upgrading, so here they >> are again. I am using "mail", the program from Apple. In the pulldown >> menu of mail under under "junkmail" they offer several choices : >> training , automatic, custom. Mine was set to "training". What does >> that mean? > > It means that the rules for guessing at the junkiness of a message are > still being updated by Mail. (I would suppose that this slows Mail down > by a little bit when fetching mail.) > > Example: > > Suppose that Mail is marked as 'training' the junk filter. > Every day, I get a piece of internal marketing (gotta love euphemisms) > with the subject > > U of L Today - [date] > > where [date] is the date which the message was sent. > > The first time it showed up, I read it, thinking that it might be a > real > live announcement of something worthwhile. > > The second time it showed up, I marked it as junk. > > Mail would then mark the offending messages as junk most of the time, > but > would fail on some days, due to some odd reason (perhaps the first one > was read on the 7th, so Mail made the assumption that the message was > not > junk if the subject had a 7 in it). I marked those as junk. > > Soon, Mail marked all as junk. This was a result of the training. > > I then read one of the messages out of a perverse curiosity. > > Now - since mail was still marked as 'training', the following day's > message was no longer marked as junk. Had the junk filtering been set > at > 'automatic', the following U of L Today messages would have still been > marked as junk, because the rules would no longer be being modified. > >> I have been fortunate not to receive any junk at all, so I >> have left the hashmark set, but I am curious.--- Further : the "sent" >> and "trash" mailboxes are divided into : on my Mac and on"my e-mail >> address." Never ever have I seen a sent or trash mail left "on my Mac" > > You might have 'store sent messages on the server' set. (same for > trash) > >> So why this division? And how much trash and/or sent mail will my >> mailbox at "insight" hold? Sometime it must be full and what then? >> Does >> Insight decide when enough is enough? I need to be enlightened. > > Oh - it's an insight account - this means you have a POP account, I > think. So... all the mail is on your machine and you don't have to > worry > about insight being too worried. > > Bill > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. > | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>. > > Marta | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be August 26. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. | This list's page is <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup>.
