On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 10:28:23AM +0200, Ian Forbes wrote: > The trouble is, if they have a mailbox with say 100 messages, they > download say 80 of them then loose their connection. The POP3 session > times out, but all 100 messages remain in their mailbox. At the next > attempt they download the same 80 messages again, often never reaching > the end of the list. > We are using Maildir folders with courier-pop as a pop 3 server. > As I understand it, the POP3 RFC specifies that no mail should be > deleted from the mailbox unless the entire session is completed > successfully. I also recall when we used old fashioned mailboxes, that > one of the popular POP3 servers violated the RFC by allowing individual > messages to be deleted after they had successfully been downloaded. > I know this problem should be managed on the client end. But the client > software (M$ Outlook), the end users and the 3rd party network are > equally inept and so the problem gets referred back to us as the ISP. I'm surprised MS Outlook doesn't handle this, I never had such a problem when I've used it. I'd suggest checking if your POP3 daemon properly supports whatever the command Outlook is using in (either UIDL or LAST) except that I was running the exact same combination (MS Outlook VS courier-pop) and never had it duplicate emails on me. Maybe peak in on an Outlook POP session and see if it's doing what it should for identifying previously-downloaded emails. Otherwise, someone has suggested IMAP, which Outlook does support, give or take. -- ----------------------------------------------------------- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, MCSE 8th year CompSci/Asian Studies student, ANU The Boss, Bubblesworth Pty Ltd (ABN: 51 095 284 361) Paul.Hampson@Anu.edu.au "No survivors? Then where do the stories come from I wonder?" -- Capt. Jack Sparrow, "Pirates of the Caribbean" License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.1/au/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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