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How to Protect yourself from MEGA files received by email.

Sometime you can't do anything about it, your friend sends you one MEGA file and you're forced to receive it, you want to call your ISP but nobody is there, so what can you do ?

Every mail program can be configured to send and receive messages, you can set
a quote on the message size in order to prevent your program from receiving those nasty Mega files, you can even clean your mailbox without bothering your ISP .


OUTLOOK EXPRESS

You can use the
INBOX ASSISTANT to manage the messages inside your mailbox on the server and set your program not to download messages above a certain size
or even delete them off the server, without involving your ISP.
Launch OUTLOOK EXPRESS select
TOOLS then INBOX ASSISTANT click ADD.
if you have multiple accounts you will have to choose an account or leave blank
to apply settings for all.
Choose a size above which you should perform the task, you have the option to delete the message or leave it on the server.
In the
perform the Following action select an option - note that the Inbox Assistant
has several uses like monitoring your child's email by setting the program to
duplicate the message and sent it to you.

One good thing is that you can send a message to whomever sends you a big message so he or she doesn't do it again. Write a message like "This Time you got away, Next Time..." or "Your huge message has been deleted before its arrival,
make sure you don't send such a message again".

NETSCAPE MESSENGER
Launch Messenger or Communicator, click 
EDIT, PREFERENCES
select
ADVANCED DISK SPACE check  "Do not Download any message larger than"
and specify a size limit in KB.


 

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