All,

Recently there was some discussion where folks were reporting seeing 
replies to messages that had never appeared in their Inbox or Spam 
Folder. Well this happened to me yesterday and I stumbled on a possible 
solution.

At the bottom of each email are a series of links, the top one gives you 
the opportunity to view or reply to a particular message online. Click 
on this in any message.

There will be a menu bar on the left, click on the Subscription button 
then on the Email Delivery History button in the top center of your 
screen. If you scroll down it will give you a list of bounced messages 
and your missing emails may be here.

The one I was looking for was bounced by my ISP because the sender had 
attached a 21.1 MB video.

Troy

Helpful find!

-----Original Message-----
From: oldtools@g... [mailto:oldtools@g...] On Behalf Of Troy
Livingston
Sent: Saturday, May 08, 2021 8:34 AM
To: oldtools@g...
Subject: [oldtools] Mysterious Missing Messages

All,

Recently there was some discussion where folks were reporting seeing replies
to messages that had never appeared in their Inbox or Spam Folder. Well this
happened to me yesterday and I stumbled on a possible solution.

At the bottom of each email are a series of links, the top one gives you the
opportunity to view or reply to a particular message online. Click on this
in any message.

There will be a menu bar on the left, click on the Subscription button then
on the Email Delivery History button in the top center of your screen. If
you scroll down it will give you a list of bounced messages and your missing
emails may be here.

The one I was looking for was bounced by my ISP because the sender had
attached a 21.1 MB video.

Troy,

On Sat, May 8, 2021 at 04:34 Troy Livingston 
wrote:

> There will be a menu bar on the left, click on the Subscription button
> then on the Email Delivery History button in the top center of your
> screen. If you scroll down it will give you a list of bounced messages
> and your missing emails may be here.


Ahh, cool, thanks for the directions. It’s nice that there is a way to see
what your isp is “filtering” for your supposed benefit.

The one I was looking for was bounced by my ISP because the sender had
> attached a 21.1 MB video.


Was this a different list? OldTools should be stripping off any attachments
so all you’re left with is blissfully plain text.

Cheers,

Chris

> --
Christopher Swingley
Fairbanks, Alaska
https://swingley.org/

Chris,

Yes, another group, one of about a dozen that were transferred over
after Yahoo cut things off.
It is interesting to note that the oldtools group is the only one of my
subscriptions that had no bounced messages. A nice change of pace after
my ISP decided to banish your server.

Oldtools is the only one to block attachments and this posting of an
enormous and pointless 5 second video would tend to validate the policy.
The only thing worse is what this well meaning but clueless individual
did to his nice carriage clock.

Troy