At 01:38 PM 1/30/03 -0500, John Mullan wrote:
I know this is a little off-topic but there are a lot of gurus on the
list.
I use an internal POP3/SMTP email server (IA eMail). Besides being
configured to accept my @mullan.ca mail (SMTP), it is also configured to
fetch my POP3 from my ISP.
Most often, when using my client to retrieve messages from my internal
server, most of them come through twice. True North Software says it is a
problem inherent in POP3 protocol. Is this true?
There may be a pony in there somewhere, but this sort of response is pure
stonewalling ... in that not all POP3 setups exhibit this undescribed
inherent problem (mine here does not, for instance), indicating the need
for some technical details to back up their brushoff of your query. I
suggest you ask them either to describe the inherent problem or provide a
reference URL. Once we have some idea of what they think they are talking
about, we might be able to suggest something.
Why, when I went with my
own internal server, did the duplication start?
Well ... I suppose the first thing to do is to find out where the
duplication is occurring ... does the internal server's POP3 client
download each message from the ISP's POP3 server twice, or does it only get
it once but send it on twice to your workstation POP3 client? Or, just
barely conceivable, is the workstaion client downloading the same mail from
both POP3 servers (internal and ISP)?
Since, behind the curtain, e-mail files are just plain text files, you can
use any text editor available on the internal POP3 server to take a look at
the e-mail files it is storing. Once we have some idea of what stage in the
process is creating the duplication, we can look at the relevant technical
details (like what OSs and what actual software is involved at each end).
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