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From: Daniel O'Leary <Daniel_O'Leary@
To: Rod Paine
Subject: Re: Mailbox Problems
Date:Sun, April 19, 1998 08:55 PM


The newer versions of Suzie can delete old mail, and OAT provides a mailbox cleanup routine also. Would any of these help?

On 4/19/98 7:39 AM, Rod Paine wrote:

>Rusty,
>
>We're still having a lot of problems with our Mac business users dealing
>with their Mailbox contents, in spite of everything we've done to
>address the problem with revised Mailbox icons and messages about the
>problem (see attached example). Many users don't actually look in their
>Mailbox (we've checked the BBS Logs to confirm this) and too many don't
>Trash the contents after they have read/downloaded the material.
>
>This is an ongoing problem with respect to wasted BBS disk space and
>messages that go unanswered for considerable periods of time. Remember,
>these are small business Mac users, most of whom don't use the Internet
>or only have something like an AOL account to deal with E-mail, mostly
>with family members, such as their kid's at college.
>
>It would help us if TF User had the ability to bring-up a DLOG that says
>something like:
>
> "You have mail or files in your In-Basket, please
> dispose of them before disconnecting."
>
>Can you give us such an option in a future TF User?
>
>-Rod
>
>ASTEC BBS



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