Re: [Evolution] POP3 not downloading all messages

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Someone brought this to my attention last friday, and i'm still trying to work out of its actually a bug or not.  The problem is the code which is used for 'keep on server' is still used partially for downloading mail normally, so that you don't end up re-processing messages if for example you have a network-outage whilst downloading the rest.

So next time you go to download it says 'oh i already got these, dont get them again', which it should - because pop is pretty limited you can't delete as you go.  The problem is they are never deleted off the server.

There are two alternatives:
1. don't do this, but then you get duplicate downloads.  on a really flakey connection you may never (in a practical sense) get all your mail and get lots of duplicates.
2. delete the old ones always.  this assumes we can trust the info, otherwise you could remove non-duplicate mails.

I'm leaning toward 2, but it complicates the code a bit.

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 21:18 -0500, Paul Harouff wrote:
>     When I Send/Receive with my Comcast account, not all messages are downloaded.
>     
>     I just downloaded 6 messages. Then I logged onto Comcast with  my web browser and found there were 22 messages still on the server that didn't get downloaded.
>     
>     What could be causing this?
>     
>     Paul
>     Huntsville, AL

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com> "born to die, live to work, it's all downhill from here" Novell's Evolution and Free Software Developer