From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 27 16:19:00 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id QAA12868 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:19:00 -0700 Received: from mpp.minn.net ([204.157.201.242]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id QAA12861 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 16:18:56 -0700 Received: (from mpp@localhost) by mpp.minn.net (8.6.11/8.6.9) id SAA15251; Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:18:53 -0500 From: Mike Pritchard Message-Id: <199507272318.SAA15251@mpp.minn.net> Subject: Re: Mail Duplicating To: kingfish@cis.co.za (Dirk Wessels) Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1995 18:18:53 -0500 (CDT) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: from "Dirk Wessels" at Jul 27, 95 10:18:36 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Length: 1301 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Dirk Wessels wrote: > > I don't want to fill your mail with nonsense, but I've looked in the FAQ's > and don't see anything to help me. > > Problem is this, when I telnet to the system and read mail with mail or > elm there is no problem, however, > > When I use Eudora or Pegasus to retrieve the mail it gets duplicated. > If I retrieve the mail first time it works fine, but it does not delete > the mail off the server. Next time I retrieve it, I sit with 2 copies of > each message, next time 3 copies, 4 copies, get the point..! > If there is 12 messages on the system it means that after the 3rd doanload > of mail ther is now 36 copies of those messages...! Kind'o fills the HDD > fairly fast if there are a few users on the system. Eudora is a POP client for retrieving your mail back to your machine, right? I had a similar problem when I first started using a different POP client (called, appropriately, "popclient"), and it turns out that your messages will not be deleted from the server until the client properly closes the connection. If you drop your PPP/SLIP link before quiting the client program, the server will not delete the messages. Does that ring any bells? -- Mike Pritchard mpp@mpp.minn.net "Go that way. Really fast. If something gets in your way, turn"