Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 08:58:40 -0600 From: "Hudson, Henrik H." <hhudson@eschelon.com> To: 'Bill Moran' <wmoran@mail.iowna.com> Cc: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: qpopper Message-ID: <C1781C38F13DA040848FEFAD07311B10459852@walleye.corp.fishnet.com>
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In addition, Outlook is a piece of junk..Pegasus mail will actually do want you want via a POP interface and download only unread mail and leave stuff on the server. Of course, you still have to purge it occasionally..otherwise you will just fill up your mailbox. If you go this route via POP you won't be able to "see" what's on the server anymore, since you download it and delete it locally, but it's still on the server. IMAP is the way to go, if you want to do this "correctly" :) --- Henrik Hudson Microsoft: "Where would you like to go to today" Linux: "Where would you like to go tomorrow" FreeBSD: "Hey,when are you guys going to catch up" -----Original Message----- From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Moran Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 08:15 To: Huff Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: qpopper > Huff wrote: > > I'm running FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE and Qpopper 3.1. I added a few test > accounts for testing purposes. I'm using Outlook Express to retrieve > the email. Outlook is set to leave messages on server. I have Outlook > set to check for new messages every 60 seconds. > Its pulling every message everytime. The same ones over and over. > Within 5 minutes I had 700 emails on one test account. > Not sure if this is a Unix issue or Microsoft. > Please help my HD is filling fast. It's neither Un*x nor Microso~1. It's doing exactly what you told it to do. It (to simplify) copies the messages every 60 seconds. If you want to be able to leave messages on the server without this happening, you'll need to install IMAP. IMAP has facilities built in to allow messages on the server that are marked as read. In that case, it won't download them again (unless Outlook is broken in that respect) If you're going to use POP, just delete the messages - POP was never designed to do what you want from it. -Bill To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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