Re: "Can't find nnnn" messages in my Held Mail

"Jeff G." <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> J. Merrill <[email protected]> organized electrons in article
> news:[email protected] that appeared as follows:
> > My Held Mail display includes
> >
> > Check All Reset
> >    [17804] ( Preview )
> > (Blocked bl.spamcop.net )
> >    [17805] ( Preview )
> > (Blocked bl.spamcop.net )
> >
> > and when I click either of the Preview links, I get (lines of
=
> > shortened)
> >
> > ========================================================
> > Previewing raw email.  Use your browser's back button to
return
> > to menu.
> > ========================================================
> > error:Cannot find 17804               (or 17805)
> >
> > I could obviously delete these, but doesn't this indicate
that
> > something's gone wrong?
>
> If you did something to change the state of your Held Mail
> mailbox/Folder between submitting the request for the Held Mail
display
> (VER) and clicking on the messages to preview them, that could
explain
> the symptoms you have presented.


I didn't do anything weird; these messages are still there, days
later; when I went to look at the first of those messages with
Webmail, it displayed a message like "message not found" --
that's what I was going to say in this message.

But I didn't write down the message, and when I went to look
again (just now) to be able to give the exact message (having
since reported the other messages in my Held Mail folder as
spam), it's now showing me a real message (not an error display)
that's only got headers and no body.  (Should I report such
messages?)

So Webmail seems to have "fixed" this -- but I still get the
error message looking at the same messages in VER.  Are you
suggesting that nothing is wrong if VER can't find the same
header-only message that Webmail can see, or that VER's message
"can't find xxx" is a limitation of VER reason that I shouldn't
use VER?

> This type of problem doesn't happen with the Webmail view of
the Held
> Mail mailbox/Folder (the recommended and only linked method of
> processing Held Mail).  Why are you still using VER?

Because it works for me.  It's Very Easy.  It's linked from all
the pages that share Report Spam page's top-line menu.  It
doesn't show me my Inbox (which is always empty, as I use POP to
get my new (not-held) messages into my mail reader), and I can't
make Webmail show Held Mail by default (can I?).

If VER is deprecated, why doesn't the VER page say that?  This is
the first time I've heard that.  (I've never been to the forums.
I'm not required to go there to use the service, am I?)  Are you
the person who says I shouldn't I use it, or is it Julian / Jeff
/ SpamCop that says so?  (Is there really something wrong with
it?)  If it's SpamCop that says so, where do they say it?

> --
> Thanks and Best Regards,  Jeff G.
> I have been a SpamCop User/Member/Customer since 1999 and am a
> Moderator of the new web-based forums (now the primary method
for
> getting help, http://forum.spamcop.net).  Please reply via
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