Junk mail and online access

[Valente]

Hello I am using Office 2008 Mac, home/student edition.

Question is: When mail goes to junk mail folder is it already completely
downloaded from server, or are just the headers that are displayed without
complete downloading it, as happens (or I presume it happens) in online
access mode?

I want to avoid downloading all the big spam messages with attaches. If,
after junk filter action, the complete spam messages are downloaded and put
in the junk folder, maybe its better for me to filter messages in online
access mode, using rules, and deleting there the spam messages remotely on
the server before downloading them. Am I right?

Valente.

 

[William Smith]

Hello I am using Office 2008 Mac, home/student edition.

Question is: When mail goes to junk mail folder is it already completely
downloaded from server, or are just the headers that are displayed without
complete downloading it, as happens (or I presume it happens) in online
access mode?

I want to avoid downloading all the big spam messages with attaches. If,
after junk filter action, the complete spam messages are downloaded and put
in the junk folder, maybe its better for me to filter messages in online
access mode, using rules, and deleting there the spam messages remotely on
the server before downloading them. Am I right?

Hi Valente!

Whether or not the entire messages are downloaded depends on if you're
using POP/SMTP or IMAP.

POP/SMTP accounts will download the messages by default but IMAP may not
download the message until you open it or view in in the Preview pane.

For both types of accounts you can edit the Options section to partially
download messages over ## KB. Most plain text messages are just a few KB
but HTML and messages with attachments will be more. You'll need to
experiment for a setting that meets your needs.

Hope this helps!

--

bill

William M. Smith, Microsoft Interop MVP - Mac/Windows
Entourage Help Page <http://entourage.mvps.org/>
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