[afnog] Same messages downloaded many times

[Mike Barnard]

PS: I also point 2 below happen with Courier-IMAP

On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 9:11 AM, Mike Barnard <mike.barnardq at gmail.com>wrote:

> Three things you may need to look at.
>
> 1 -- What changed on his Outlook setting. If for some reason outlook
> believes that it has never received email for this user before, it will
> retrieve all the email that was previously received.
>
> 2 -- What changed on the server side. I do not know what pop/imap server
> you are running, but i once saw something strange happen with dovecot. When
> a users index file got corrupted and was redone, the MUA retrieved all the
> emails that had previously been downloaded
>
> 3 -- Noah already pointed this out. If the MUA was retrieving email and did
> not complete the streaming, the message flagging done by your imap/pop
> server is not complete and this message will be retrieved again.
>
> Regards
>
> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 10:25 AM, Yaovi Atohoun <yaovito at yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
>>  Hi all,
>>
>> I have a problem with a user's mails being downloaded many times using the
>> same computer.  A weeks ago, this user reported that about 400 messages
>> already downloaded in the past were downloaded again as a new mails.  FYI, I
>> have configured his client software (Outlookk Express) to leave a copy on
>> the server after downloading. The reason is to allow this user to also have
>> access to his mail form the webmail.
>>
>> Could somebody tell me what can cause Outlook to download many times the
>> sames messages on the same computer? What  solution to my problem?
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>> Yaovi
>>
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>
> --
> Mike
>
> Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
> a million chances happen 99% of the time.
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Mike

Of course, you might discount this possibility, but remember that one in
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