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Hi Ming-Li,
On 24 January 2001 at 10:46:26 -0800 (which was 18:46 where I live)
Ming-Li wrote and made these points:
ML> Does the same apply to situation where mail is left on server (for
ML> 1 day in my case). I've always left my mail on server for one day,
ML> but increasingly I've got duplicated mail recently.
No, it doesn't apply. I have been leaving my mail on the server for 0
days (that's until midnight, same day) and have received *no* dupes
under that condition. My POP3/SMTP server is on the LAN here so I have
next to no connection problem (he said, fresh from fixing a BNC cable
in the lounge that had taken out the entire network <g>).
I have had it that way for a couple of weeks and this evening I turned
it off. At that point, I promptly re-received the days 200 messages
:-).
ML> I know it could be due to connection problem, since my Internet
ML> connection has been less than ideal. Yet in the case where mail is
ML> left on the server, TB shouldn't download a message simply because
ML> it's still on the server. IOW, someone (TB or the server?) should
ML> remember which message has been downloaded and skip it next time.
It does.
ML> I've always thought it's TB's job, for I could set up a new clone
ML> account and re-retrieve all the mail left on the server, meaning
ML> the server doesn't know which has been downloaded, right? Where
ML> does the difficulty lies, then, for TB to remember which has been
ML> downloaded, when a connection is broken, except maybe the last
ML> one?
Because we're talking about a mail that TB believed it had deleted.
The delete instruction never arrived at the server so the message
stayed there and looked to TB like "fresh meat".
ML> It's not terribly serious, for the kill dupes in all folder
ML> command works wonder in TB. But I'm getting more and more
ML> complaints from my wife, so I guess it's time to ask.
I could be wrong about this but I don't think that I am. I have
received unexpected dupes in TB but they have certainly arrived at my
server as dupes. In my case this is for yet another reason: I have two
responsible SMTP relay gateways for my domain and messages should go
to one or the other depending on geography and load. Sometimes (very
rarely) a message ends up on *both* so I get two copies. The routing
headers tell the tale though.
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Cheers -- .\\arck D. Pearlstone -- Moderator TBUDL / TBBETA / TBTECH
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