>1. About 50% of incoming mail is duplicated. Sometimes 2 minutes apart, >sometimes 20-30 minutes. It is not on a per account basis, so I don't >think this is the .dstore problem. I also deleted the temp folder to >eliminate this. This started about a month ago. Some accounts (I have 20+ >email accounts in two seperate running versions of emailer) get almost no >dups, some get 3-4 a day, and some are at 50% duplicates. No rhyme or >reason I can see.
I saw this happening under 10.4. Not to the extent you are seeing it, but rather just occasional emails (if I had to put a number on it, maybe every 5th connection gave me one duplicate email). I don't know if you are just seeing an extreme version of what I saw or if you are seeing something else. I never figured out why it was happening to me, although I did figure out that it was a result of whatever the message was that duplicated, was not deleted from the Temp Incoming folder after Emailer processed it. In other words, Emailer would unpack the messages and properly delete the Temp files as it did, but would leave one undeleted. Then on the next connection, that one would be unpacked again and then deleted properly (but sometimes a new one would be left undeleted, other times all would be well for another few rounds of email before one was left undeleted). When it happens to you, are there files left in the Temp Incoming folder? Of course, if you open the folder, you risk having a .DS_Store file created, but that is ok, because you know those symptoms, and since it doesn't cause duplication, just delayed unpacking, it is safe to allow that file to be created while doing the testing. (wow, that was a really wordy way of saying "open the Temp Incoming folder and leave it open while you check mail and see if periodically files are being left in it undeleted). >2. incoming files losing their attachment suffixes. .bin. dmg, /png, etc. >Some come in, most do not now. In the past few days, though, I am getting >corrupted files. I also get a few "double files", which are badly munged >"apple double" files. Now that I am getting apple doubles munged >together, it is getting worse. This is REALLY starting to sound like your mail provider is opening and scanning email attachments for viruses and is some how damaging the attachment in the process. Does this happen with all accounts or just some accounts? Or more correctly, does this happen for one mail provider only or all providers? >Emailer is going to be retired if I can't solve this, it is really >getting bad. Hey, if I've moved on to an OS X native client for my OS X machines, you can too :-) Actually, there is a REALLY good chance I'll be stopping with Emailer entirely shortly. My work machine is going bye bye, and I'm likely going to change to a MacBook. That would leave me just with Emailer on my report server, which is being combined into another machine running OS X (I'm upgrading my database system so I won't be locked into OS 9 any more, which means my report server is going OS X and will likely have a custom written mail client handing the emailing). But I'll still hang out here because I have no where else to go :-( ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
