From: "Gene Heskett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I wonder if perhaps earthlink is not the only ISP with that problem. > I have my vz prefs set to delete any detected spam as I have now > switched to a fetchmail based mail suck. > > Haveing a kmail problem the other day, I logged in via the webmail at > vz, and found 9 messages, all spam, sitting in the spam folder there. > > So I checkmarked them to be deleted, and as I had the tech support guy > on my ear at the time, I noted that delete didn't, it just moved the > stuff to the trash folder. That pulled my trigger and I made it > clear to the support drone that when I clicked on delete, thats > exactly what I intended to happen. As vz is currently setup, you > then have to move to the trash folder, select them all again, and > click delete to be able to be truely rid of the wasted space.
That's web mail. I'm highly allergic to that "abortion". So I never use it. At one point, though, I had something even web mail could not repair. So the whole mail file at Earthlink had to be deleted. {^_^}