skipping large messages

rowil (apparently) - 02:39am May 4, 2008 PST
via email

At 2008-05-03 02:47 -0700 Mail Lists wrote:

>I've searched Apple's site, the web, versiontracker, tidbits articles
>and tidbits talk and still can't find some way to do this

I've also been trying to find an answer to a Mail question - please
forgice me for tacking it onto this thread.

I'm sheperding a very new computer user (72 years young and _never_
used a keyboard before) through the process of "doing e-mail".

We got her an end-of-line small white 2GHz MacBook at a reduced price
with OS X 10.4.9 installed, and she is now reasonably happy with the
process of sending & receiving messages.

However, while she was telling all and sundry of her friends that
she's now online, I forgot to caution her that she should let them
know she's on dial-up, so that they might avoid sending her big
attachments. So, several incoming messages have been indigestibly big
for her dialup connexion. Rather late in the day, I switched on the
Mail preference for "prompt me to skip messages over 40k" (a size I
have found works well for me in Eudora).

I unclogged the system by using the webmail interface to delete
various U-Tube movies that she could live without and things seemed
OK for a while. However, another big attachment (a picture of a new
great-grandson, so vital to download!) was received and I was
surprised by the behaviour of the resulting dialogue box in Mail. It
appeared only for a very few seconds, barely allowing enough time to
absorb its contents, before disappearing again.

I thought at first it was some system setting (I remember there used
to be something like "automatically say OK to alerts after XX
seconds") but can't find anything similar in the current system.

A search of the Mail Help system did not reveal anything useful.

Does anyone know how to make that dialogue box more persistent? And
(assuming the powers that be allow this posting) if this isn't the
best place to ask such a question, can anyone point me to a better
place, please?

(The temporary fix for the picture was to find a Wi-Fi broadband
hotspot and I got the picture using the webmail interface - so no
immediate panic!)

regards

Rowland
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