Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 01:24:52 -0800 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "'Bill Moran'" <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>, "'Huff'" <dwhuff1@home.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: qpopper Message-ID: <004401c08130$8401d5e0$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <3A64576B.A39C231@mail.iowna.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Bill Moran >Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2001 6:15 AM >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. No, No No!! 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. > Arrg! No, No NO! qpopper rewrites the mailfile in /var/mail and adds a status header to the message that indicates if the message is read or unread. There is not a problem to use pop from multiple mail clients AS LONG AS only ONE mail client is configured to DELETE messages on the server when it checks mail, AND the user is sufficiently careful. For example, it is no problem to have a mailserver at work in which the e-mail client at work is set to NOT leave messages on the mailserver, (ie" it deletes them) and the mail client at home is set to Leave messages on the server. That way if the employee stays home and works for a day they can check e-mail and when they come back into the office they can still have a copy of the message. Outlook has no problem doing this if the mailserver is properly configured. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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