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.)
Yes, and thats a good thing.
Mailservers are not usualy configured to delete messages automaticaly once they have been downloaded, your mail client needs to send a command to delete the messages. If your client software gets disconnected or barfs before sending the delete command, the server will not delete the messages.
