On 15/01/2004 05:56 PM, "Paul Berkowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 1/14/04 10:02 PM, "Geoff Wallace" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Had already done a typical rebuild a week ago so did advanced. >> >> Found that it hen downloaded all the mail on the server again???? >> >> Is this the standard behaviour after a complex rebuild? > > Yes, for IMAP and other server accounts, where the previous cache is emptied > and replaced by new downloads. If you keep POP messages on the server, they > may get downloaded again, but would be duplicates. It depends on your ISP's > "POPper", I think : if it recognizes specific computers and email clients, > as the better ones do, the messages will be marked as read on the server and > won't re-downloaded. If it's a crummy POPer, then it doesn't know you've > downloaded them already and is depending on your email client to know. If > you've done an Advanced Rebuild, the ID numbers of your messages in the > database are different so Entourage doesn't know they've been downloaded > before and you'll get duplicates. >> >> No mention of this quirk in the Ent Help? > > It certainly used to be there for IMAP. If you've got POP your situation is > very rare - it doesn't happen to most people. Hello Paul, I have POP only mail, on optusnet my ISP, .mac and vicnet who is a community based ISP run by the Victorian Government for Community Organisations to give them a web presence, 3 different Mail Servers and all 3 downloaded again. Oh well I hope it has fixed the problem of no messages showing in the message window. Geoff WALLACE -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
