On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:38 -0800, Christian Motta wrote: > For some reason my clients that use pop to check email will keep > downloading the same email, or group of emails, or all email from the > server over and over again. > > I tell clients to keep mail on the server for 30 days - so they can > use webmail if need be > > Most of them use outlook but I have seen it happen to thunderbird too. > > I can't figure out is this is a client / dovecot / sendmail issue. *They* need to use some option to avoid downloading the same message again in their mail client, and your mail system needs to use the same unique IDs with the same messages (which is most-likely does). POP3 doesn't have a way for the server to know what's new/old/read/unread, for it to hold back old messages and offer new ones to the client. It just provides a list of what's on the server for the client to do whatever it wants to. -- Don't send private replies to my address, the mailbox is ignored. I read messages from the public lists.
