Yea, It never seemed POP handled the mail file size required when people leave mail on the server as well as IMAP.
On Sun, Jun 14, 2015 at 4:05 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote: > IMHO, POP3 should never leave messages. You can’t leave a copy of your > mail at the post office. If you want to leave messages, that is what IMAP > is good for. > > *From:* Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2015 2:59 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] today's consulting fun > > If Outlook is set up for POP3, make sure the guy periodically stops the > Send/Rcv process so it can delete messages off the server (assuming you did > not set it up to leave copies on the server forever). That way it won’t > start over with 1 of 54484 if it gets stuck again. > > And if it still can’t get past one problematic message, see if Bell South > has webmail and he can go in and delete the problem message from there. > > > *From:* Lewis Bergman <[email protected]> > *Sent:* Sunday, June 14, 2015 3:31 PM > *To:* [email protected] > *Subject:* Re: [AFMUG] today's consulting fun > > > So weather is your point? Sounds like maybe you have never had the pain of > running your own mail server. We used to get this note and again. Someone > needs to manually look at the message file and go to the spot if that > message and manually delete it. Good luck convincing bell south to do it. > On Jun 14, 2015 2:11 PM, "CBB - Jay Fuller" <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> >> so i was really tempted to post this on facebook but since he's local, >> maybe not. >> >> issue: my outlook keeps downloading the same message over and over. >> the message was about three months old once i looked at it. >> >> i setup a new profile, clean pst file, started downloading messages. >> >> downloading message 1 of 54484 messages (1.79 gig) >> >> what?! >> >> messages started coming in from january 2014. >> >> this is an @bellsouth.net email address. >> >> mr. lawyer dude, you and i need to have a little talk.... >> >> >> >
