>Use network utility to ping your ISP while >downloading the email. Ping the mail server if you can. Why ? >Please try it and it may confirm a suspician I have.
Humm... if the server drops the connection after sending the email, but before Emailer can tell it to delete the mail, then the email will be sent another time. Right train of thought... but, if the connection drops, Emailer will report an error. If it is just dropping packets, the IP will correct for that. HOWEVER... Emailer doesn't issue the Dele command until AFTER the mail is unpacked successfully. Then it slams the server with a sequence of Dele # commands telling it which messages to delete. I see two potention problems here. 1: Emailer may issue the commands faster than the server can take them, causing it to miss some of the Dele #, thus leaving the messages behind for the next connection. This *shouldn't* happen as Emailer should wait until it gets an OK before it issues the next Dele, and the server shouldn't say OK until it has accepted and processed the command. Doesn't mean it isn't happening however. Or #2: Mark is leaving mail on the server for a period of time. The email is downloaded, unpacked, and Emailer records which messages have been received. Next connection, Emailer connects, gets the message list, notes that it has received certain ones, and receives the new ones. Then tells the server to delete the ones it has received that are now older than whatever the time is. So far all is well. If the server isn't working right and is renumbering sequentially each time, and Emailer is deleting things out of order (maybe because of a setting to delete from the server when deleted in Emailer), then Emailer's numbers don't match the servers, causing Emailer to potentially download the same messages again as Emailer thinks they are new, but they are really just renumbered old ones. So just throwing two ideas out there off the top of my head that Neville caused to pop into my head in the first place by bringing up his ping plan. Going off his idea, if the quick check I recommended yields no help (that is, leave the Temp Incoming folder open and see if files are being left undeleted), then I'd probably start up a stream monitoring tool and watch the data go between the server and Emailer and see if something sticks out as a reason for duplicate messages. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
