From: Digest To: "OS/2GenAu Digest" Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 00:01:34 EST-10EDT,10,1,0,7200,4,1,0,7200,3600 Subject: [os2genau_digest] No. 2019 Reply-To: X-List-Unsubscribe: www.os2site.com/list/ ************************************************** Monday 06 December 2010 Number 2019 ************************************************** Subjects for today 1 Re: Hosting : Voytek Eymont" 2 Inbox size : Alan Duval 3 Spam : Alan Duval 4 Re: Spam : Peter Moylan 5 Re: Inbox size : Peter Moylan **= Email 1 ==========================** Date: Mon, 6 Dec 2010 07:47:49 +1100 (EST) From: "Voytek Eymont" Subject: Re: Hosting >>>> An organisation I am a member of (The Australian Photographic >>>> Society) >>>> has just received a hosting proposal from Net Registry Pty. Ltd. and >>>> asked for my comments. >>>> >>>> Does anyone have any comment on this company? I use them to register all our client domain names, they are quite good, and, reasonably priced for name registration, good web self-manage i/f -- Voytek -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG **= Email 2 ==========================** Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:36:18 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Inbox size Hi. I was alarmed recently to find that the partition that I have ECS on was running out of space. My Inbox looks to be the problem. I have culled it to 142 messages but that equals 1,723,448 bytes which is astounding. How could I move Inbox from my ECS partition where Thunderbird is installed to a data partition and still have it recognized by Thunderbird? If this is not possible the only thing I can think of is to copy all messages that I require and paste them in my word processor and save them that way. What do you people do? Regards, Alan Duval -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 3 ==========================** Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 21:47:29 +1100 From: Alan Duval Subject: Spam Hi, Are you all getting a great increase in spam lately? I hadn't been getting much until the last few weeks but now the quantity has gone up dramatically. Regards, Alan Duval -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 4 ==========================** Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:18:58 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Spam On 6/12/2010 9:47 PM, Alan Duval wrote: > Hi, > > Are you all getting a great increase in spam lately? > I hadn't been getting much until the last few weeks but now the > quantity has gone up dramatically. > Yes, I'm being massively mailbombed with an "Easy way to make money" message. Presumably the spam filters will eventually catch up with this, although I have to say I'm not impressed by the learning ability of the Thunderbird spam filter. I can't find any way to adjust its "ageing" behaviour - I presume that any adaptive filter would include such a thing - to ensure that the filtering is not dominated by the spam that was about when the program was first installed. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG === **= Email 5 ==========================** Date: Mon, 06 Dec 2010 22:29:11 +1100 From: Peter Moylan Subject: Re: Inbox size On 6/12/2010 9:36 PM, Alan Duval wrote: > Hi. > > I was alarmed recently to find that the partition that I have ECS on > was running out of space. My Inbox looks to be the problem. > I have culled it to 142 messages but that equals 1,723,448 bytes which > is astounding. > How could I move Inbox from my ECS partition where Thunderbird is > installed to a data partition and still have it recognized by > Thunderbird? > If this is not possible the only thing I can think of is to copy all > messages that I require and paste them in my word processor and save > them that way. > What do you people do? I would never put my own files and applications on a system partition, and I was a little shocked to see that that was the default chosen by the eCS 2.0 installer; I thought that only Windows installers did that. It was a nuisance having to move my Mozilla profiles to the place where I normally keep them (D:\Mozprofiles). The profile path is specified by two environment variables in CONFIG.SYS. I'm on a Windows machine at present so I can't check the exact names, but they're something like MOZPROFILES and MOZPLUGINPATH. (I still have old versions of Firefox and Thunderbird, put there without my permission, on drive C:. One of these days I should seek out and destroy everything in directories like C:\var, C:\programs, etc.) So exit from Thunderbird and Firefox, copy your existing profile directories to another drive, and find and alter the appropriate lines in CONFIG.SYS. Then you'll need to reboot. Check that it worked, and then delete the old directories. But first ... in Thunderbird, choose the menu entry File/Compact Folders. That should save you a lot of disk space. -- Peter Moylan peter at pmoylan dot org http://www.pmoylan dot org -------------------------------------------------- http://www./melbpc/ - The Melbourne OS/2 SIG ===