Yes, I have experienced the same thing with other mail servers. Downloading of messages can be influenced by other issues such as connection speed, server load, client load, and probably others. There may even be some IMAIL specific issues.
But it is still the responsibility of the client to keep track of what it has downloaded. When the client downloads multiple messages that simply means the client's mechanism failed in that regard. There are very few pop3 commands. Messages are either deleted or not deleted. My own experience was that no clients I used in conjunction with any mail servers I accessed (some not IMAIL) were able to successfully do this job sufficiently well that I could depend upon it as a useful technique. I found an alternative. Now the issue with duplicate forum messages I think is entirely different. I have no clue what causes that. Terry Fritts Wednesday, May 22, 2002 you wrote: DS> I was having the same conclusion that this was an Outlook client issue DS> too, but now have reservations with this explanation as I witnessed the DS> duplicate bug on a separate brand new install of a mail client (theBat). DS> ... DS> It seems like a bug between IMail and how e-mail clients interact. Does DS> anyone know if other mail server software's have this issue? Does anyone DS> know what flag is set by a mail client to IMail so it knows an email has DS> already been downloaded? Does the mail client append the .mbx file? Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
