"Harley, Ageless Wings" wrote:

Fred...

I can't get Juno to give me an answer.  I have at times picked up upwards

of fifty messages and have had no difficulties.<<

That doesn't really mean anything.  When you "get" your email, some ISPs
download COPIES of your messages, but still leave the originals in the
online mailbox (often the ISPs that have so-called "Web Mail"...like Juno
does, do this.)

You really have two mail boxes...the one on your computer, and the one on
the ISP's computer.  They BOTH have to be cleaned out. Some ISPs do it
automatically every time you download email, and others give you options to
do it yourself.

In the latter case, it is your responsibility to go online and delete the
ones you've downloaded.  Sometimes there are options you can set up from
your preferences section of your email software, where you can select
"Download and Delete the online messages", or "Download and Leave Messages
Online", or something similar.

You'll have to look around your menu bar to see if you have it, or search
your email software's help file. You can usually find "Options" or
"Preferences" under "Tools", "Edit" and sometimes "File" on your menu bar.
When you find them, then you may have to sort through a bunch of sub
headings or tabs to find where to change the setting.

If you don't select a method of removing the emails that are saved online
after downloading them, or the ISP doesn't automatically delete the emails
on downloading, then you will keep on getting emails without any problems,
until your mail box is full.

Then you won't get anymore, and you won't know it.  Although everyone who is
trying to send you one will!  They will get a message that the email they
sent was refused. The problem here is that telling you by email that your
message bounced is a catch 22, because you can't receive anymore!

It's best to know how your ISP handles the email after it downloads it to
your computer, and if you have options, set it up so that the online mailbox
gets cleaned regularly so that it can't get full.
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