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If your email program is having difficulty picking up your email from a pop server, it may be because of poor mail account maintenance. Many people let email pile up on the server until a file corrupts and email service grinds to a halt. Good account maintenance practices can help prevent this.

So, if you go to pick up your email one day and get this error:

This error is often caused by an overstuffed INBOX or a corrupted file in the INBOX. Once you see this error, it is too late. You will need to use your WebMail client to pickup whatever messages you can, then all of the messages will have to be deleted.

…you will have take action as described in the caption. If that doesn’t work, your INBOX may have to be deleted. We can save it as a text file and you can go through it message by message, but that is an arduous task with a multi-megabyte file.

To give you an idea, most files that jam up a mail server are in the 50MB range. I just downloaded an INBOX file of 12.5 MB. Opened in a test editor, that comes to over 300,000 lines of messages. How would you like to deal with that?

OK, so let’s take some steps to avoid the problem before it happens.

By setting your email client (Mail, Outlook, Thunderbird, etc.) to delete read, deleted and junk mail from the server in a reasonable amount of time, you can avoid the problems associated with an overstuffed mailbox.

I’ve put together a series of videos to walk you through the process of setting your Preferences in various email programs to automatically delete old emails. So have a look at the video for your email client and then check to see if you have your settings the way you want them… BEFORE you have the problem of your email not working correctly.