On 08 Aug 2002, it is alleged that Dmitry Shulga sauntered in to
netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news and loudly proclaimed:
> Do not ask me about it. I do not know. I had this thing before with
> something else and I gave up and never tried again. I use IMAP instead.
> Well, actually, the question is, who should and how can something know
> which messages were downloaded and which were not? I am surprised you
> did not have this problem all the time.
>
> Dmitry
>
> NB: if you find a solution, will you post it here?
Or you could look in to the groups listed in my sig, which is where
discussions of questions like this /ought/ to be occurring. . . .
/b.
P.S.: Agreed on IMAP, BTW; POP just isn't designed for multiple users on
multiple computers. . . .
> steve carroll wrote:
>> I share an email account with my wife. She uses Mozilla 1.1 on her
>> computer and i use Netscape 7 on mine (I need spell check). Because we
>> use the same email account, we both have "Leave Messages On Server"
>> check in prefs. (I remove the messages from the server with Eudora with
>> the Delete After X Days option, something I wish Mozilla/netscape had).
>>
>> Way to frequently, all of the messages on the server will download,
>> instead of just the new ones. This happens to both of us, although not
>> usually at the same time. Some days it may only me her -- others only
>> me. This has been an occasional problem all along with Mozilla (since
>> v.7X anyway), but lately it's gotten so bad we just can't stand it. It
>> has happened to me three times already tonight.
>>
>> I can't find a filed bug on this, so I assume it's not affecting very
>> many.
>>
>> Any thought on what could be causing this?
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Mozilla end-user questions should be directed to:
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.general
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.win32
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.mac
snews://secnews.netscape.com:563/netscape.mozilla.user.unix
Note that you need to have SSL enabled and the port set to 563.
