Re: [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution!

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

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Do you store your email in "Local Folders"?

Peter Barnes wrote:
> Paul, Thanks for the comments. I sell books worldwide and
> therefore have to deal with emails from any country. However,
> when this problem happened none of the mail appeared to be in
> anything other than English. The last message to download was a
> press release from a respectable German company (in English)
> which had about five attached files amounting to about 2MB total
> (I have seen the message on my old Windows PC).
> 
> I'm not familiar with pine, ucbmail, emacs (I'm new to Linux) -
> are you saying I could get rid of this last message with this
> software?
> 
> Peter
> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Leyland"
>> <pcl23 gen cam ac uk> To: evolution-list gnome org Subject: Re:
>> [Evolution] Evolution not working - can't find a solution! 
>> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 09:51:31 +0100
>> 
>> 
>> We see this occasionally --- message-of-death we call it
>> locally. Almost always the m-o-d is spam in a Chinese character
>> set.
>> 
>> The easiest way to deal with a m-o-d is to delete it using some
>> other software.  Some people prefer to fire up pine or ucbmail;
>> I tend to use Emacs myself.
>> 
>> We generally advise that spam is delivered to a folder which
>> has the preview pane inactive.  Very rarely is it necessary to
>> see the contents of a mail to determine its spamicity.  In
>> particular, if the subject isn't in a Roman alphabet the
>> message is flushed instantly.   I recognize that this heuristic
>> isn't appropriate for everyone everywhere.
>> 
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Ron Johnson, Jr.
Jefferson LA  USA

Is "common sense" really valid?
For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that
whites are superior to blacks, and that those with brown skins
are mud people.
However, that "common sense" is obviously wrong.
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