Re: [Evolution] POP3 not downloading all messages

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

thought the code already did #2... oh well.

Jeff

On Sun, 2004-08-22 at 22:52, Not Zed wrote:
> 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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