Scuse my ignorance :-) but wouldn't this situation be the same whether  
I collect the mail on my mac or my iPhone? I never get duplicates on  
the mac…




On 2 Jul 2009, at 18:42, Jason Davies <[email protected]> wrote:

>
> Pat Wilson wrote on 2/7/09 at 09:45
>
>>
>> I've had it for some time too. Not sure I understand about the  
>> juggling
>> servers bit. This is mail from my own domains not hotmail, yahoo  
>> etc..
>
> basically, when mail is left on a pop-server, it has to exist on
> a disk *somewhere* (in this case owned by whoever your domain
> server is). What we deciphered on the Mailsmith list was that
> what was probably happening was that (hypothetically)
>
> 10 am I download 5 messages and leave them on the server
>
> 11 am the disk the ISP is using gets full and some of the stuff
> on it is copied to disk2 at the ISP
>
> 11.30 I check in again and my emailer somehow detects that
> something has changed and thinks they are all new messages.
>
> this is the likeliest scenario that they could come up with.
>
>
> >

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