Hans wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 13. April 2017, 15:47:07 CEST schrieb Dan Purgert: > Hi Dan, >> How are these computers connecting to the mailserver? If it's IMAP, the >> client and server will resync when the client connects ... so if your >> oldPC last sync'd a month ago, it'll take it a while to validate what >> it's supposed to do with the (now deleted) messages that it still sees >> as 'new' since the last time you sync'd. >> > > no, it is POP3.
It should then either (1) remove messages as soon as they've been retrieved OR (2) mark them in such fashion that they're then deleted later (e.g. on session close RFC1939[1] describes how POP3 behaves. Gave it a quick skim, and it seems that ยง6 (pg.9) may have some relevant information for you. [1] - https://tools.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1939.txt -- |_|O|_| Registered Linux user #585947 |_|_|O| Github: https://github.com/dpurgert |O|O|O| PGP: 05CA 9A50 3F2E 1335 4DC5 4AEE 8E11 DDF3 1279 A281