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SPAM taking a long time to delete

From David@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 23 10:54:09 2016

WLM on Windows 8.1

Recently I have been getting SPAM which looks to be from a harvested
address book. That is, the name of the originator is known to me.

The originator email address is not correct.

Deleting these emails seems to take a very long time; this is a worry in
case there is something exploiting a weakness in WLM.

Has anyone else encountered this?

Cheers

Dave R

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Windows 8.1 on PCSpecialist box

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From David@21:1/5 to VanguardLH on Fri Nov 4 18:35:29 2016

On Sun, 23 Oct 2016 07:40:18 -0500, VanguardLH wrote:

VanguardLH wrote:

David wrote:

... Deleting these emails seems to take a very long time; this is a
worry in case there is something exploiting a weakness in WLM.

Have you compacted its message store yet?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders
http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDep9Le90Q

Oops, had Thunderbird on the brain. For compacting WLM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows%20live%20mail%22%20compact%

20compress

Have it set to compress each time it closes.

Cheers

Dave R

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Windows 8.1 on PCSpecialist box

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From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to David on Sun Oct 23 07:37:17 2016

David wrote:

... Deleting these emails seems to take a very long time; this is a
worry in case there is something exploiting a weakness in WLM.

Have you compacted its message store yet?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDep9Le90Q

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From VanguardLH@21:1/5 to VanguardLH on Sun Oct 23 07:40:18 2016

VanguardLH wrote:

David wrote:

... Deleting these emails seems to take a very long time; this is a
worry in case there is something exploiting a weakness in WLM.

Have you compacted its message store yet?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/compacting-folders http://kb.mozillazine.org/Thunderbird_:_Tips_:_Compacting_Folders https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxDep9Le90Q

Oops, had Thunderbird on the brain. For compacting WLM:

https://www.google.com/search?q=%22windows%20live%20mail%22%20compact%20compress

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)

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