On Wednesday 02 July 2003 17:10, Chip Old wrote: > I'm not familiar with ipop3d, but I suspect the problem is caused by > different UIDL schemes used by ipop3d and qpopper. If so, your users' > POP3 clients saw everything as new mail, so downloaded it all over again. As mentioned in an earlier post I have used qpopper all along and I havn't recompiled or done anything strange
> > That raises the issue of why your POP3 users' mailboxes still contained > mail many months old. Do you allow them to leave mail on server even > after their POP3 clients have downloaded it? How can I stop this ? I saw the delete after downloading option @ compiletime but is there not a chance that the client can loose mail? What will happen if my webmail client pop's the mail will it delete it then to? > > > That is why I am thinking that the when my users checked their mail > > using our webmail server, which just retrieves messages using pop3, that > > somehow qpopper saw the messages on the webmail server as new messages > > and was somehow downloading them back to the server. Even getting the > > messages that were in the users deleted items in webmail. Does that > > sound possible? I didn't think that pop3 could do anything like that > > though. Hmmm Could't the pop3 session from the webmail client cause the UIDL of the message to change? Mozzi ************************************************************ Scanned by @lantic IS Virus Control Service This message was scanned for viruses and dangerous content. @lantic Internet Services (Pty) Ltd. - http://www.lantic.net eScan for Windows-based PCs - http://www.escan.co.za ************************************************************
