At 8:30 AM -0800 3/27/01, Gustavo Viscaino wrote:
> 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?
Are you using '--disable-status'? If not, I'd suspect the client.
We see a lot of complaints about stuff like this, and always with
Outlook/Outlook Express. Try having the affected people use Eudora
(or some other client) for a while, and see if the problem goes
away. (<http://www.eudora.com>).
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Randall Gellens
Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only
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