VersaMail leaving mail on the POP3 server
(or VersaMail will not remove mail from the POP3 server)
In my continuing interesting experience with the Palm TX (or palm T|X) I am now having some fun with VersaMail sometimes not removing mail from the server after checking.
The last current solution to this problem that seems to have worked was to go into the hotsync utility, choose custom, VersaMail, Advanced, and untick a few boxes there.
My setup is unique – I have a main mailbox which is checked by Thunderbird – but which is also set at the server to redirect a copy to an Australian host. (The auzzie.net address is US hosted so POP3 latency can be frustrating when borrowing a web connection.) Since SpamAssassin flags the SPAM (which is probably 70-90% of my mail) it’s not convenient to download the SPAM onto the Palm and then filter it – more time, more RAM, more latency, more risk of a bus passing and dropping the borrowed wireless connection when down the street…)
…So the solution is to use MailMon Free (A real bugger to download – eventually found it at http://www.communicator.pl/MailMon.exe – what’s the go with simtel.net – is it just an advertising site with no content or something??) It can be set to repeatedly poll a mailbox and remove messages meeting certain criteria. For me it was anything over 1MB and anything with *****SPAM***** in the subject line.
So now if I’m travelling, the Palm can get the sanitised mail where I can find 802.11 coverage. In other cases, the pricey GPRS mobile (LG U8120) can fetch the summaries. (Those two products won’t communicate.)
Will post an update if it happens again and I find another solution.
Later edit: This program still gave me problems. In the end, VersaMail was dumped and SnapperMail was used instead. Gmail is used to filter the junk and then forward to a normal POP3 account.