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Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2001 09:15:07 -0500
From: Bill Moran <wmoran@mail.iowna.com>
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To: Huff <dwhuff1@home.com>
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Subject: Re: qpopper
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> 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


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