On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:04:29AM -0400, Gordon Keehn wrote: > jludwig wrote: > > >On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:22, J. Erik Hemdal wrote: > > > >>>Is anyone else getting 6 copies of every message? This is silly! > >>>---------------------------------------------------------------------- > >>>- Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx - > >>> > >> > >>No. Things are OK here on that score, but I'm not always seeing my > >>postings > >>getting to the list. > >> > >>Erik > > > >I'm seeing sporadic dupes and always have, my mail profile should > >exclude them. > > -- > >jludwig <wralphie@xxxxxxxxxxx> > > > > > Yesterday I had problems which caused me to have to restart > downloading messages several times. Apparently (hey, what do I know?) > messages aren't purged from the server until all pending messages are > received, so everytime I had to restart the download, it pulled down all > the messages, and I ended up with several copies of the earlier ones. > Could that be the problem here? (Note that on one occasion some time > ago, I think a download spontaneously restarted itself in the middle, > and I got duplicate messages, but it was a while back.) > Cheers, > Gordon Keehn Possible. I use fetchmail, but I thought while reading the messages in mutt I had skipped a few and they reappeared this morning. Perhaps I did skip them and just didn't delete them. jay
