Someone brought this to my attention last friday, and i'm still trying to work out of its actually a bug or not. The problem is the code which is used for 'keep on server' is still used partially for downloading mail normally, so that you don't end up re-processing messages if for example you have a network-outage whilst downloading the rest.
So next time you go to download it says 'oh i already got these, dont get them again', which it should - because pop is pretty limited you can't delete as you go. The problem is they are never deleted off the server.
There are two alternatives:
1. don't do this, but then you get duplicate downloads. on a really flakey connection you may never (in a practical sense) get all your mail and get lots of duplicates.
2. delete the old ones always. this assumes we can trust the info, otherwise you could remove non-duplicate mails.
I'm leaning toward 2, but it complicates the code a bit.
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 21:18 -0500, Paul Harouff wrote:
When I Send/Receive with my Comcast account, not all messages are downloaded.
I just downloaded 6 messages. Then I logged onto Comcast with my web browser and found there were 22 messages still on the server that didn't get downloaded.
What could be causing this?
Paul
Huntsville, AL
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