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Subject: Re: Messages downloading multiple times
Date: Tue, 23 Dec 2003 18:20:46 -0500
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From: "Wayne Heming" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Subscribers of Qpopper" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2003 5:42 PM
Subject: Re: Messages downloading multiple times
> This is exactly how sendmail operates, and yes it may be 5 days instead of
> 4. If there is a way around it I would like to know, but a lot of "so
> called" sendmail gurus have looked and think it is correct.
>
> The main point is that the message is sent to the users on the same domain
> from a user of that domain and the mailbox has to be over quota, lets face
> it, this doesn't happen that often.
If this is a vanilla installation of Sendmail, and not some OEM incarnation,
then you should report this to Sendmail and see what Claus says about it.
The quickest way to get an answer is to report to comp.mail.sendmail.
If it is some OEM version, you should contact the vendor for a fix. I have
never seen this behavior in sendmail on other systems configured to
reattempt delivery. Admittedly, on my systems Procmail rejects the message
for over-quota boxes, and Sendmail returns it to sender.
As for the original problem of this thread, can anyone tell me WHY oh WHY
"modern" email programs download the same messages over and over? I ask
this because when I exists in my sheltered world of Amiga I never
experienced this problem; YAM kept track of UIDLs and would skip over
messages which it had already downloaded. I became exposed to this
phenomenon when I began working for an ISP several years back, supporting
Lookout Express and Nutscrape.
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