On Oct 4, 2006, at 7:27 PM, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
---- Thane Sherrington <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> At 07:04 PM 04/10/2006, Anthony Q. Martin wrote:
>
>
> >>You probably have checked to leave your mail on the server.
> >>Change it to delete mail on server.
> >No, that's not it. These e-mails were supposed to be deleted
forever
> >ago. They don't show up when I log in. I have that setting right
> >now, yet to login in long enough to see your message< I've got 900
> >e-mails downloaded again! I've deleted them 3 or 4 time
> >today. Funny thing, this will stop for several days and then start
> >up again. Today it's really bad.
> >
> >HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!
>
> So you you have two separate accounts doing the same thing? Have you
> tried going into webmail and deleting them there?
Yes. It happens on personal and work accounts, but only at home.
I'm into webmail right now and only see a couple of e-mails,
starting with sam's. Yet, if I open Thunderbird, it started
downloading about 1000 e-mails that go back to the beginning of
this year. Obvious, this mail is on the server even though I don't
see it in either webmail programs. I don't get it. Also, if I use
OE or OUTLOOK at home, the same thing happens. So, it's independent
of e-mail program.
I assume you're using POP? Are you using IMAP / Webmail and maybe
getting folder contents moving back into your inbox?
You can also do a little snooping around with telnet...
if you're using POP telnet to your email server, port 110 (ie for me,
"telnet pop.mindspring.com 110")
to login
USER username [enter]
PASS password [enter]
(you should get "+OK" after every command you enter)
then you can enter other commands
the command "LIST [enter]" will give a list of messages waiting to be
downloaded, and give you the total number on the server. So you can
see if there are just a bunch of random messages still sitting around
on your server?
And then you can type "RETR x [enter]" where X is a number of a
message to see the text of the message.
To delete a message you can type "DELE x" where X is the message number.
telnet has been pretty useful for me in the past as a way to manually
debug what's going on with POP, email programs and servers...so many
of them try to be too smart!!
-- sample output for when I do this on my mindspring mail --
C:\>telnet pop.cap-press.com 110
+OK NGPopper vEL_6_10_5_1 at mindspring.com ready
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
USER cscotts
+OK
PASS secret
+OK cscotts has 22 messages (165369 octets).
retr 1
[blah blah blah message source]
dele 1
+OK
quit
+OK
C:\>
--
Scott
