Programmer In Training <[email protected]> writes: > Dag-Erling Smørgrav <[email protected]> writes: > > None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP. > A possible solution, but who likes IMAP?
Pretty much anyone who likes software that works properly and protocols that help rather than hinder the software's efforts to not royally f**k up your mailbox. > I much prefer POP3 and having the mail locally (I delete it from the > server once it's copied). You can do that with IMAP as well. > Also, it seems as if he's downloading it from the other users (the > person who sent the email) mail server and there is no way to force the > other mail server to use one standard over another (although in this > case a useless thought). Who doesn't support IMAP these days? > The problem is it was not able to get into the local mail queue > because of certain default settings (which at one time probably made > sense). No, the problem was that it was processed multiple times. This could have been avoided with IMAP. > This problem would have occurred if he were using IMAP or POP3 > since it never made it into his mail servers queue. This was bouncing > between his server and the original sender's server. No, read the OP again. DES -- Dag-Erling Smørgrav - [email protected] _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-chat To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
