Outlook is probably doing it. Find the inbox.dbx file and the pop3uidl.dbx
file and delete them. ( moving any mail you want to save first ) The next
time you start Outlook it should create new files.
David Daniels
System Administrator
Starfish Internet Service
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
"Clicking my fingers to the bone"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Sinclair" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2001 2:26 PM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Mail messages mysteriously disappearing
> I'm using iMail Version 6.05 as my mail server and recently started to
> notice that some emails addressed to my account are not getting to me.
Users
> have told me they sent me mail, but it never shows up in my inbox. I
thought
> for awhile the messages may have been misaddressed but it's happened
enough
> I started looking into it more closely.
>
> When I look at my mail log files, I can see that user messages were in
fact
> sent to my correct address. I will get a line in the email log like:
>
> 01:18 01:57 SMTPD(2C97014A) [127.0.0.1] connect 127.0.0.1 port 3303
> 01:18 01:57 SMTPD(2C97014A) [127.0.0.1] HELO SMTP
> 01:18 01:57 SMTPD(2C97014A) [127.0.0.1] MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 01:18 01:57 SMTPD(2C97014A) [127.0.0.1] RCPT TO: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 01:18 01:57 SMTPD(2C97014A) [127.0.0.1] D:\IMAIL\spool\D93d814a.SMD 37608
> 01:18 01:57 SMTP-(00000056) processing D:\IMAIL\spool\Q93d814a.SMD
> 01:18 01:57 SMTP-(00000056) ldeliver mydomain.com me-main (1)
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 37608
> 01:18 01:57 SMTP-(00000056) finished D:\IMAIL\spool\Q93d814a.SMD status=1
>
> But the mail never shows up when I check my email using Outlook.
>
> I can't determine from the logs what (if anything) is different about the
> email messages that do not get received compared to the ones that do get
> received. It is sporadic. By and large I am getting all my email - but
some
> small percentage is getting lost somehow.
>
> Any ideas on what might be causing this problem?
>
> Paul Sinclair
>
>
>
>
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