> I have also this problem, but for the most of the time, the mails that disappear
> are spam, which for some reason got past the spam filter I have installed at
> my ISP. Every now and then, a real mail disappears, and it's quite embarrasing
> telling these people to resend, because my mail program ate their mail because
> the sender used a lame mailing software (which is mostly windoze programs).
As far as I know, my ISP has no spam filtering. And I have none
enabled on my end. I just use MDII's Delete button. Works great.
> The reason that makes the mail disappear is that MD-II already finds another
> (spam, or something) with the same message-ID, and thinks that it already have
> that mail. The mail is never downloaded, just deleted from the server, so there
> is no way telling if it was an important message or not.
It could be duplicate message-ID, but I still believe that the
disappearing mail problem is in MDII's message filtering algorithm.
I've noticed as well that e-mail that should be filtered into
personal folders I set up, ends in the catch all PRIV one instead.
That is, the message doesn't get filtered. Haven't been able to
figure out why this happens.
My missing messages seem to get missing during the download. However,
I have no way to verify this. I see the message header in the
download requester. So, I'm assuming that it is the process of being
downloaded.
> Maybe MD should do a bit better dupe-checking than just relying on the
> Message-ID.. Like checking the Date: header or something similar, and if the ID
> is already in the db, maybe add something that makes the new mail's ID unique
> (timestamp) to the new mail header..
Speaking of "timestamp." I'd like to see the actual message date
displayed, not the date the message was downloaded. (But this
request has been said many times before.)
> Or, another option would be to have a "keep duplicates at server" setting, or
> "disable dupe checking" (but that will probably not work by just adding it, for
> some reason I think MD-II do only want one message with a specific ID)..
I'd be happy, if everything that MDII does now would just work
correctly all the time.
> Even when turning off the "delete from server", you won't get the messages that
> are considered duplicates, and not by importing the mail either..
>
> This requires probably a 5-minute fix for those who know the source code
> (Olliiiiiiii, pleeeeeeeeease fix it ! :) )...
Maybe, MDII can be worked on after the final incarnation Voyager 3 is
done.
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Patrick Bartek
NoLife Polymath Group
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