So the answer in an ideal world is: 'Oh, I'm sorry. We use standards based Internet email. This is what has allowed people at different companies with different servers to talk to each other. You're using a "microsoft" mail tool which is in too many ways proprietary and broken." We'd be happy to provide you with Microsoft Exchange service for only $30/user/month (a tad more than gartner puts its cost at). Or you can download $ListOfPopClients from our web server for free.
Thanks so much. ' (as I said, ideal world...) Quoting Justin C. Darby ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I would just like to comment that we, as a ISP, have had this problem > with several Outlook clients that leave mail on the server. > > We have not been able to figure out why, it goes across multiple > versions of both Outlook, Outlook Express, and Windows. It is possible > that it happens with non-Outlook clients, but the majority of our > customer base (10,000+ pop accounts) runs Outlook. > > It seems to get worse if more mail is left on the server (e.g. several > thousand messages), which leads me to believe it's a client error and > not a server one, but who knows. It's more evident when the customer has > one client set to delete mail and one client set to leave it, e.g. > delete at home and leave it at work. I'd say most of the complaints > about it are in that situation. > > Over the last year we've received at least 20 complaints, we use > qpopper4 under Linux with Exim as an MTA. Sometime mid-year we switched > to Exim from Sendmail, It would be safe to say all of the complaints > happened while we were running Sendmail. Maybe that's a clue? > > Justin C. Darby > > -----Original Message----- > From: Randall Gellens [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, January 31, 2003 2:04 PM > To: Doryce Moore; Subscribers of Qpopper > Subject: Re: Messages downloading multiple times > > > At 4:48 PM -0500 1/29/03, Doryce Moore wrote: > > > I am running Qpopper 4.0.3 on Solaris 8 using statistics logging. > > Randomly some users are getting messages re-downloaded. The > > statistics show 0 messages, and a 0 file length when this happens. > > Is that statistic from the end of the session that downloaded the > duplicate, or the end of the previous session? > > > The next "pop" resets the number of messages to that in the mail > > spool and the file length is the same as ls -l /var/mail/username. > > Is this a corrupt cache file when leaving mail on the server? > > Is it possible to obtain a debug trace of this happening? > > Does it only happen with certain clients? If so, which one(s)? > > Is there anything unusual about your configuration, such as spools or > cache files or temp spools on NFS volumes? > > > -- > Randall Gellens > Opinions are personal; facts are suspect; I speak for myself only > -------------- Randomly-selected tag: --------------- > Oh, dear, where can the matter be > When it's converted to energy? > There is a slight loss of parity. > Johnny's so long at the fair.
