As Alan says, we need more information. I did experiment with my Yahoo account using web mail extensions. A message with a 108KB attachment was not downloaded when the default TB setting of "do not download larger than 50KB" was selected. When the setting was unselected, the message was downloaded at the next scheduled mail check. For Yahoo web mail accounts and "real" POP accounts the download limit setting works. It may not work with all web mail systems however. For this download limit setting to work, Thunderbird needs to receive information about the mail size from the server before the message is downloaded. Regular POP mail servers will follow the POP3 mail protocol and provide this information. There is no such standard for web mail. Web mail providers can present your mail on the web page in any way that they like, so long as it can be read by a web browser. This is why a different web mail extension is needed for each system, Hotmail is not the same as Yahoo, which also differs from Google and so on....... If the web page on which your web mail provider displays your incoming mail doesn't present mail size information in a manner that the web mail extension can readily extract and pass on to TB, then the extension cannot tell TB in advance how big the mail is and TB cannot apply any download limit.
alanrf wrote: > We do not have much to go on in your problem description. > > This forum is for the use of the Webmail add-ons for Thunderbird. > > Are you using Thunderbird? Which version? > > Are you using the Webmail add-ons for Thunderbird? > > If so then which Web service are you using ... Hotmail perhaps? > > On Dec 27, 9:02 pm, "John Clinard" <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm presently using Outlook Express, but I would like very much to switch to >> Thunderbird; however, I have a problem that is preventing that. I use >> dialup and I need to be able to limit the size of incoming emails. In the >> past, I have downloaded emails so big that my connection timed out and that >> caused much trouble before I got it corrected. To avoid this problem with >> Tbird, I'm trying to use the 'disk space' account setting which says "Do not >> download messages larger than XXX KB". I attached a 200KB file to an email >> and sent it to myself. Then I set XXX to 100 KB, but Tbird downloaded the >> email anyway. This feature works in OE which is the reason I still use it. >> Assuming this feature works as presented in Tbird, what am I doing wrong? >> Can anyone offer an alternative method of limiting downloaded email size in >> Tbird? Thanks for your help. >> >> John >> > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. > To post to this group, send email to > [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en. > > > > -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Thunderbird Webmail Extension" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/thunderbird-webmail-extension?hl=en.
