>I don't know if it's possible to re-check a mail server fast enough so >that it hasn't yet tagged messages as read
1: no it wouldn't be possible in a normal POP3 setting. POP is an exclusive protocol, so only one connection to a given mailbox can be made at a time. And any status marking of messages is done during a session, so statuses would be updated during the connection, and thus updated before another connection could occur. 2: It doesn't matter anyway because the read/not read status of a message isn't handled by the server in the POP protocol. Its handled by the client. So there is no status to update on the server because it doesn't care if you have or have not already read the message. The client takes care of telling the server if it should delete a message, which is the only status update the server cares about in the POP protocol. So if a duplication is occuring, its either because the server is failing to delete the message when told, or because Emailer is failing to update its record of what messages have been downloaded. The other possibility is, the server is renumbering the messages in the POP box so they are always sequential starting at 1. This will confuse Emailer because it tracks what messages have been read or partially downloaded by their number. The server SHOULD NOT be renumbering the messages for just this reason. But if it is, then if a partially downloaded (and thus not deleted on the server) message gets renumbered so it now carries a number belonging to a message that Emailer thinks should be new (ie: one it deleted and thus thinks is an available number again), then Emailer will redownload the message thinking it is a different new message. Hopefully that makes sense. -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
