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Subject: [OM] [ot] email program help
From: Acer/Siddiq <waltherppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2002 00:17:14 -0800
sorry for the off topic, but i really have gotten to the point of needed 
advice...

i use opera (the browser, v6.0) to browse the internet. those familiar with it 
will also know it has a built in 
email client, which i also use to manage my email (operamail.com, part of 
opera's services if you chose so, 
but NOT part of the browser program). To my knowledge, I recall reading the 
mail client is based on 
Pegasus. the files are .mbs and .mbx extension (one each, inbox.mb*, trash.mb* 
and so on). Browser 
downloads my mails to local hard drive, deleting them off server.

I also run Norton AV 2001 (updated weekly)

Problem is, NAV doesn't recognize the built-in email thing. w/ Eudora, which my 
bro uses, and Messenger 
(family use), NAV knows those are email progs and will scan each mail 
individually upon download. Not so 
w/ Opera. That's where the problem comes in.

Things were fine till a couple months ago, when the large mail volume (various 
mail lists) meant virus coming 
in here and there. Now, NAV will pop up and tell me my inbox is infected, tries 
to fix it, can't, and 
quarantines the file (inbox.mbs). there is the problem: it doesnt scan 
individual mails, it quarantines the 
ENTIRE inbox because of one infected mail.. I lose ALL mails downloaded in that 
sessions.

I've been hit and wiped out at least a dozen times in the last month, and I've 
finally had it. What's a good 
shareware/freeware/adware application I can use? Messenger I dont like, eudora 
i dont like, outlook i dont 
like. I am thinking of pegasus, but will i be able to transfer all the files i 
have to that program? there are 1000
+ saved msgs in a seperate folder, and 31k+ in the trash (i keep for archive 
reasons, i can always search it 
for OM stuff).

Suggestions, comments, whatever, but OFFLIST please. waltherppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
mailto:waltherppk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?subject=email%20app

thanks, sorry again for the OT post.

/A/S
--
dum spiro, spero
http://users2.ev1.net/~wesiddiquis/siddiq/



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