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If you go into your system with something like old Norton Commander or even a wordprocessor, you can find your mail files. You will see some fascinating things. First off, there is an enormous amount of overhead in your mail that is not seen. It's much like looking at a HTML file in HTML for rather than text form. When you receive email the mail is added to one long file in something similar to a single word processor text file which may run megabytes long. Because of the format of the file and the continuing nature, it is a sequential file. In the old days using Netscape three I would collect email files as much as six megabytes long on the disk. Also, unless you telly your browser to erase received emails, the same file will be saved in your ISP computer. I ran up over ten megs at my ISP until they notified me and I had them erase it. We then adjusted my Netscape system to erase files at the ISP as I received them.
There is some provision for deleting deleted email files on your disk. What I have also done is rename my email files, then go into them with a word processor and delete all the deleted messages. Netscape email will start a new email file. It's rather complicated. I have email archives saved as word processor text files.
From - Fri Sep 07 17:05:55 2001 Return-Path: Received: from riker.mountain.net (smtp.mountain.net [66.118.64.15]) by pop.mountain.net (8.12.0.Beta19/8.12.0.Beta19) with ESMTP id f87I4trR020619; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:11:18 -0400 Received: from brokenarrow.mountain.net ([66.118.64.21]) by riker.mountain.net (Post.Office MTA Undefined release Undefined ID# 0-0U10L2S100V35) with ESMTP id net; Fri, 7 Sep 2001 14:01:42 -0400 Message-Id: <5.0.2.1.0.20010907133759.00ba8a58@pop.mountain.net> X-Sender: tdomico@pop.mountain.net X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0.2 Date: Fri, 07 Sep 2001 13:48:24 -0400 To: inhouse@mountain.net From: MountainNet tech support Subject: Mail and Virus alert. Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=====================_109662956==_.ALT" X-Folder: Mailing List X-Mozilla-Status: 8001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 X-UIDL: 9IN!![DM"!'1"#!MRm"! --=====================_109662956==_.ALT Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Dear Mountain Net Customer, We would like to inform you of a situation that has arisen concerning email. Many of you may have noticed a delay in receiving email. This is due to the fact that mail servers world wide are being hit with billions of "spam" or unsolicited E-mails, many of them contain viruses. Mountain Net itself has been inundated with 20 million "spam E-mails" per day, of these 1000's contained the "sircam" virus, as well as other viruses. We are sure of this because of our filtering process to prevent viruses from reaching our users. Our system engineers are working tirelessly to prevent viruses from reaching our users. However, despite all our efforts, some viruses may still get through. At this time we urge all users to install an up-to-date anti-virus program. If you already have an anti-virus program, please check with the program vendor to ensure you have the latest updates for your program. Thank you, The MountainNet Tech Support Team. --=====================_109662956==_.ALT Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii" Dear Mountain Net Customer,
We would like to inform you of a situation that has arisen concerning email. Many of you may have noticed a delay in receiving email. This is due to the fact that mail servers world wide are being hit with billions of "spam" or unsolicited E-mails, many of them contain viruses. Mountain Net itself has been inundated with 20 million "spam E-mails" per day, of these 1000's contained the "sircam" virus, as well as other viruses. We are sure of this because of our filtering process to prevent viruses from reaching our users.
Our system engineers are working tirelessly to prevent viruses from reaching our users. However, despite all our efforts, some viruses may still get through. At this time we urge all users to install an up-to-date anti-virus program. If you already have an anti-virus program, please check with the program vendor to ensure you have the latest updates for your program.
Thank you,
The MountainNet Tech Support Team.
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