At 9:17 AM -0800 3/23/01, John Jones wrote:
> I have been experiencing a problem over the last two weeks that is really
> starting to annoy me, and I cannot locate the reason for it.
>
> I have a RH7.0 box running Qpopper 3.1 at home. I pop mail from this box
> both at home and at work, both clients running continuously from Outlook
> 2000. Both clients are set to leave mail on the server for 3 days.
>
> Yet, every morning, when I come into work, my Outlook has downloaded
> already-read mail again, resulting in about 120 emails that I have to
> delete. I am getting sick of this, and cannot figure out the reason for it.
>
> Anyone have any clues? Would some sort of network slowdown at work, which
> we have due to network backups at around 3am, cause this or contribute?
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
You could try another email client, to see if the problem is only
with Outlook. (For example, Eudora at <http://www.eudora.com>).
You could also try enabling tracing in Outllook and/or Qpopper, or
even use a packet trace utility (which would help show dropped
packets and such).
--
Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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