Part of the POP protocol says that you need to finish the download before
acting on other commands therefore an aborted connection will return it to
the state it was in before the connection was made.
Eric S
----- Original Message -----
From: "Hermann Strassner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "IMail_Forum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 4:15 AM
Subject: [IMail Forum] Problem with IMAIL, POP3 and aborted connections
>i have some new messages in my mailbox. I try to get them, and
>somewhere after a few messages the connection aborts (hardware
>fault, telephone line broken, something other).
>Then i try it again, and the same messages already downloaded to my
>computer are downloaded again!
yes, a known situation, if the POP3 session is aborted, this mess occurs.
I had this situ really bad between Paris/eudora and Ohio/Imail over
sprintlink which was a disastrous link.
Imail is following POP3 protocol, as is the client. The only real
solution is to use a reliable link.
Len
Hi Len, this is not possible because i mean dial up connections from outside
workers. You can�t make it 100% reliable.
Our previous mailserver (TFS) deletes one mail after the other, right after
getting the acknowlege for this mail. This leads to starting at the aborted
mail, not at the first mail as with IMail.
If you choose the option "leave mails on server" in the client, the
behaviour is alright. The mailserver starts again at the aborted mail, not
at the beginning. The mails are not deleted, but marked as read when they
are succesfully downloaded.
Hermann Stra�ner
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