On 10/22/2013 5:23 AM, Nicholas Chua wrote: > > >> But I did not make any type of changes in mail server or in outlook, > and it happening with more than 10 users. > > > Are you experience bandwidth issue? > > > Looks to me you are experiencing bandwidth issue. > > All email clients have an "anchor" to mark which email has been > downloaded/read. At the same time, auto check is often turned on > usually by default is 10mins. > During times when your internet(yours or the remote server) is very > utilized or exhausted, and the email client cannot complete send & > receive within that 10mins, it will automatically run again. Over a > number of times, the "anchor" is broken and you will re-download all > the emails left on the server. > > regards > nic > I suspect your server re-numbered your messages, or you wrapped the message counters. Either way, this is not an uncommon issue with POP - and it is a design problem with POP, not a programming error.
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