What happnens if the mail server gives you 2gigs of storage but you never delete anything and it fills up, to 2 gigs.
Typically, do they just stop accepting mail, or do they delete your oldest mail to make room?
Only your ISP knows for sure. Ask them.
Cindy Hamilton
Giganews will send you a notice and offer to sell you more. Same with volume of traffic. I still have that on auto renew although I never go over my cap since usenet is pretty sparse on movies and music these days. I am not sure about other sellers but Giganews wants to sell more, not alienate customers.
I hadn't even thought of that possibility, and it's certainly a better idea from even their pov than my two ideas. I still have 5% left.
I don't think I mentioned it here, but when I got my new computer maybe a year ago it would crash every few days and unlike all previous crashes it would take the table of contents of my email program with it
So I didn't want to delete anything until it was resolved. The crashes stopped a few months ago, probably because of a windows update. Certainly nothing I did.
I have to set aside 20 minutes or more to put the email setup back the way it was.
But I finally thought of search words and this one has a combination policy.
"If you go over your mail storage quota, any further mail sent to your account will be temporarily bounced with a 4xx code. A 4xx bounce, also known as a soft bounce, means that the server will continue making attempts to deliver the message for some time. Therefore, if you get your account back under the storage limit quickly (either by upgrading your plan or deleting some existing data), no messages will be lost.
"If your account remains over storage quota for a week, we will change to returning 5xx permanent error messages. This means all messages sent to your account at this point will bounce and be returned to the sender as undeliverable."
Giganews is a Usenet provider, aka NSP, and if they offer email service it would be news to me. Do you have a link at giganews.com where they describe an email offering?
I was just giving an example of how web services operate. I wouldn't expect you to get it. If you read threads for content and not just to stalk me you would have seen Micky confirm that is how his mail provider operates
Saying pretty much what I said. They will tell you that you need to buy more or get cut off, usually giving you a grace period.
My "Email Server" is part of my WEB HOSTING plan. Maybe you just use Google or Yahoo but adults buy web space and not subject their friends to tracking, spam and ads.
Web services? Try to keep up. The question was about email service, (the hint was "mail server", since you missed it), to which you gave a nonsense reply that was unrelated to email services, and then Micky rightfully ignored your nonsense reply and immediately switched back to his email service in his follow-up. I don't know why you'd dig in and try to spin your apparent mistake. I say apparent because you might still surprise me and provide a link to Giganews's email service and their policy on mailbox storage.
No, you stated flatly that "Giganews will send you a notice and offer to sell you more". You were wrong, and you're trying to weasel out.
It is the only service I have ever run out of capacity on but I am sure I-Motion or Web.Com would do the same. (my other 2 internet providers)
AFAIK, there's no requirement for you to jump into every thread, even when you don't have a clue what's being asked or discussed. Just sit it out when it's a topic that you know nothing about. That's my advice.
In other words, you don't understand the topic in the slightest.
Generally not true, when it comes to paid email services.
If I give you the benefit of the doubt, that should mean that you have a clue what happens when a person approaches and/or exceeds their allowable email quota, yet you took a swing and missed.
Another swing and a miss.
Follow your own advice. There is also no reason to parse every word I say. It makes you look like a troll.
I usualy do and it works pretty well. That's why I offered to share it with you. You're welcome.
Translation: When you don't know WTF you're talking about, you'd appreciate it if people would just be quiet rather than pointing it out.
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