I am experiencing a similar problem these days. The
box is a RedHat 6.2 with qpopper 3.1.2 in server-mode,
using Outlook Express as the client. Most people there
leave mail on the server so they can download the
messages at home. After downloading a message in the
morning, sometimes Outlook Express downloads the same
message(s) in the afternoon, making my life a hassle
;-).
I don't know if it's something broken with Outlook
Express (a bug in UIDL checking??) or something wrong
with qpopper (somehow I doubt it... qpopper's role
would be generating correct UIDLs and responding
correctly to STAT requests and something like that,
right? Randall? ;-)). Unfortunately, I didn't have the
time to test it with other mail clients and
Microsoft's Knowledge Base didn't have any
satisfactory answer. I enabled logging in Outlook
Express so I could see what was going on behind the
scene, but the log file is too big for a quick glance.
Does anyone have a clue of what might be going on?
Thanks in advance,
Gustavo Viscaino
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--- John Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, the same mail client is repeatedly downloading
> the same email messages.
> It happens regardless of the other client at home.
>
> C'mon guys, I am not stupid. I have worked in the
> ISP industry for over 5
> years as a Sendmail administrator. I know how POP3
> works. That is why I
> cannot figure out where this is happening. I
> honestly am starting to think
> that it is a client issue combined with
> slowdowns/outages on the network due
> to backups. If the Outlook client looses
> connectivity to the server, then
> reestablishes, it re-downloads everything without
> checking to see if it
> already has it.
>
> I come in, there are 4 of the -same- message (same
> timestamp, even) setting
> in the inbox from last Friday. THAT is the issue.
>
> I sorry to have bothered the list. =(
>
>
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: <removed for privacy>
> > Sent: Monday, March 26, 2001 10:28 AM
> > To: John Jones
> > Subject: Re: Multiple downloads
> >
> >
> >
> > John, I think pop doesn't really support multiple
> accesses
> > to the maildrop, i.e. it is the client who knows
> what mails
> > have been downloaded or not, if you have
> downloaded them at
> > home, then your work client will download them
> again. IMAP
> > is the solution to this... I don't know any pop
> clients that
> > really support some sort of synching together...
> >
> >
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