Great feedback Terry and especially your experience seeing same duplicate issues with on other Mail servers (other than IMail). And thanks to you and others for the work around.
-Don S. > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:IMail_Forum- > [EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Smart Business Lists > Sent: Wednesday, May 22, 2002 8:31 AM > To: Don Schreiner > Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] Duplicate E-mail Messages in Client SOftware > > 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/ > ---------- > [This e-mail scanned by CompBiz for Viruses. http://www.CompBiz.Net] 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/
