thought the code already did #2... oh well. Jeff
On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 22:52, Not Zed wrote: > 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 > -- > > Michael Zucchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > "born to die, live to work, it's > all downhill from here" > Novell's Evolution and Free > Software Developer _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
