Dan Spangenberg wrote:
>
> I have had this problem repeatedly with several different clients for quite
> some time. I never could figure out the reason. The only way we could
> clear it was to turn off the "keep copies on server x days" and do a send
> and receive. This would clear the server of any messages and then we could
> turn it back on until the problem occurred again. This occurred with great
> frequency under Imail 5.x.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Angel Castillo
> Sent: Wednesday, May 10, 2000 3:12 PM
> To: Ipswitch List
> Subject: [IMail Forum] Automatic Re-downloading of E-mail
>
> Ok, I have one user that's reported this so far. She says that every other
> day her Outlook 2000 client re-downloads all the messages that she has up on
> the server. I have all users with the "5 days" criteria of keeping copies
> of their mail on the server for emergencies. We have all Outlook clients
> configured as "Internet-Only" mode for POP3, but I also have the IMAP
> service running on IMail server as well. No one is having this problem but
> her, so what could this be?
I saw this myself. Best we could come up with was that M$, in their
infinite wisdom, really set Outlook up to work best with Exchange
(surprised?). I've heard of this problem with other servers besides
IMail. The "keep copy on the server" mode often forgets which were read
already. Just another reason I'm now using Netscape.
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