Email help needed.

waynegohl

waynegohl

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We have Incredimail for our email account here at home and we were just hit with 435 of the same emails today.

what can i do to delete them all as they are not for us. i have put a Block Sender thingy on and as they come in the emails go straight to the delete box, but now its kinda timed out or something.

what else can i try?

thanks all.
 
waynegohl said:
We have Incredimail for our email account here at home and we were just hit with 435 of the same emails today.

what can i do to delete them all as they are not for us. i have put a Block Sender thingy on and as they come in the emails go straight to the delete box, but now its kinda timed out or something.

what else can i try?

thanks all.
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can you get onto the mail server via webmail or something and delete them from the server?
 
halicon said:
can you get onto the mail server via webmail or something and delete them from the server?
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i have no idea, i know absolutly nothing about this stuff. was thinking of just letting the thing run its cause but 435 emails is slowing my pc down.
 
waynegohl said:
We have Incredimail for our email account here at home and we were just hit with 435 of the same emails today.

what can i do to delete them all as they are not for us. i have put a Block Sender thingy on and as they come in the emails go straight to the delete box, but now its kinda timed out or something.

what else can i try?

thanks all.
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You are using incredimail as an e-mail client on your home pc's, but who is your e-mail provider? Your isp? Gmail? Mweb? Webmail? Vodamail?
 
... and why on earth are you using incredimail? Surely there are better e-mail clients? :p
 
Garyvdh said:
... and why on earth are you using incredimail? Surely there are better e-mail clients? :p
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I wasn't going to say that...:) But isn't incredimail just some sort of wrapper / skin thing for Outlook Express?
 
Easiest (and quickest) is to start Outlook Express up, set it up with your email account details, and only download the email headers. Delete all of them which you don't want.
 
ok incredimail was the easiest for us to use as we didn't understand outlook express, but now i need to change it as the adverts attached are irritating my dad when i send him mail.
 
The_Librarian said:
Use Mozilla Thunderbird - chances are it will import your email and other settings correctly.
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In my experience, chances equally are that it will not. :) Our OP wants to delete his spam, remember. He's probably doing that right now.
 
waynegohl said:
ok incredimail was the easiest for us to use as we didn't understand outlook express, but now i need to change it as the adverts attached are irritating my dad when i send him mail.
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LOL... that's why we asked. Incredimail is all in its own category of "irritating ware"!!! :p

... and should not be used by bandwidth starved South Africans.

But good to hear you are getting rid of it!

Try Windows Live Mail... or Thunderbird.
 
saw that windows live thingy somewhere, i will have a look at it.
the Thunderbird you mentioned is that the same as Mozilla Thunderbird cause i have that on one of my PCFormat discs i got with the mag.
 
waynegohl said:
saw that windows live thingy somewhere, i will have a look at it.
the Thunderbird you mentioned is that the same as Mozilla Thunderbird cause i have that on one of my PCFormat discs i got with the mag.
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Yep, it is the same.

Email client [like virtually every other class of pc software] depends on personal preference. I prefer Outlook Express [XP] / Winmail [Vista] over Thunderbird.

I used to use TB for my work email, but really got irritated with it:
1. When replying to any email it cannot add your signature at the top of the email - it always adds it add the bottom even if you choose top in the settings.
2. It doesn't include the time stamp when replying but does when forwarding:confused:.

So I'm staying clear of TB for now. You can check it out and decide which you prefer.
 
thanks man i will have a look at all of them, i just want one that works and is easy to put the settings in cause those things stuff me up.
 
waynegohl said:
thanks man i will have a look at all of them, i just want one that works and is easy to put the settings in cause those things stuff me up.
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The Windows Live Mail is most like Incredimail... it can still do the HTML and smilies and backgrounds and all that... but without the overhead.
 
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