On 3/6/05 9:54 AM, "Larry Stone" wrote: > > FWIW in this thread, I did have a problem with duplicates of messages that > should have just been deleted. It all occurred while I was on vacation and > dialing in, never getting a connection faster than 26.4k (OUCH!!!). > > Typically, I'd dial in and hit "Send and Receive All" which would initiate > connections with nine different accounts of which three would tend to have > large quantities of mail. Most of those accounts were set to keep mail on > the server for seven days. While mail was slowly downloading, I'd then > typically start something on the web browser. > > My theory is that with so much competing for so little bandwidth, some of > the POP sessions would time out. Entourage would tell the server to delete > the message and clear it from its database of messages on the server but the > connection would time out and the server would never actually execute the > delete (which I believe, at least with my POP server, doesn't actually occur > until the end of session). Next POP connection, the server reports having > all these messages that Entourage says it doesn't have and so they get > downloaded again. > > Once I started separately downloading the three "big" accounts before > hitting S&R All for the rest, I did not have a repeat of the problem. > That's interesting, because it is similar to the behavior I get (empty deleted items folder, later do an S&R and get the messages that had previously been deleted. Sometimes (but I think not always) I can avoid the problem by doing S&R immediately after emptying deleted items. However, I'm not using dial up, so if something is going wrong with the connection it isn't because it's slow (cable internet, usually at least it's reasonably fast).
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