Hi
What mail server can prevent incoming mail to repeat downloading to the mail client?
Thank you for your help
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On 2/19/2010 12:26 PM, chloe K wrote:
Hi
What mail server can prevent incoming mail to repeat downloading to the mail client?
It is usually up to the client what they want to download, how many times they do it (a user may have different clients and may reconfigure them to drop and re-add an account, etc.), and when they delete from the server. I'd be surprised if any servers strictly limit repeat downloads. On the other hand, any sensible mail client will track the messages it already has and not download them again. If something is doing it repeatedly it is probably broken.
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Thank you
--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] mail issue help and need good mail server To: centos@centos.org Received: Friday, February 19, 2010, 1:43 PM On 2/19/2010 12:26 PM, chloe K wrote:
Hi
What mail server can prevent incoming mail to repeat
downloading to the mail client?
It is usually up to the client what they want to download, how many times they do it (a user may have different clients and may reconfigure them to drop and re-add an account, etc.), and when they delete from the server. I'd be surprised if any servers strictly limit repeat downloads. On the other hand, any sensible mail client will track the messages it already has and not download them again. If something is doing it repeatedly it is probably broken.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
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Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Here's one example: me. When I'm not at home, I read my email via webmail. I could, I suppose, d/l it *without* deleting from the server. Then, when I get home, I fire up t-bird, and d/l all my mail, this time deleting it.
I might assume that some folks d/l frequently, but do not delete from the server, thus saving space on their own system, but storing everything on the server.
mark
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Here's one example: me. When I'm not at home, I read my email via webmail. I could, I suppose, d/l it *without* deleting from the server. Then, when I get home, I fire up t-bird, and d/l all my mail, this time deleting it.
I might assume that some folks d/l frequently, but do not delete from the server, thus saving space on their own system, but storing everything on the server.
Are you talking about IMAP or POP3 - they behave differently. With POP each client location has to download and choose to keep original on server, otherwise only one client can see the email. With IMAP one has the option to see the headers and by default leaves the server as the master. This does put more traffic on an IMAP server as a rule, but I use IMAP in preference if possible so that I can access emails via my iPhone and my T-bird clients, but only deal with mail once. HTH
mark
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On 2/19/2010 1:56 PM, Rob Kampen wrote:
m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Here's one example: me. When I'm not at home, I read my email via webmail. I could, I suppose, d/l it *without* deleting from the server. Then, when I get home, I fire up t-bird, and d/l all my mail, this time deleting it.
I might assume that some folks d/l frequently, but do not delete from the server, thus saving space on their own system, but storing everything on the server.
Are you talking about IMAP or POP3 - they behave differently. With POP each client location has to download and choose to keep original on server, otherwise only one client can see the email. With IMAP one has the option to see the headers and by default leaves the server as the master. This does put more traffic on an IMAP server as a rule, but I use IMAP in preference if possible so that I can access emails via my iPhone and my T-bird clients, but only deal with mail once.
Yes, if the client in question is using pop, switching to imap is probably a good idea. There is an option in tbird (and probably others) for whether to download all the messages or wait till you read them.
What mail client are you using?
My people use Thunderbird, it keeps track of the emails that it has downloaded and doesn't download again...
I had this problems years ago with earlier versions, but only at random and on different clients and at different time, it was unrepeatable..
John
On 2/19/2010 2:23 PM, chloe K wrote:
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Thank you
--- On Fri, 2/19/10, Les Mikeselllesmikesell@gmail.com wrote:
From: Les Mikeselllesmikesell@gmail.com Subject: Re: [CentOS] mail issue help and need good mail server To: centos@centos.org Received: Friday, February 19, 2010, 1:43 PM On 2/19/2010 12:26 PM, chloe K wrote:
Hi
What mail server can prevent incoming mail to repeat
downloading to the mail client?
It is usually up to the client what they want to download, how many times they do it (a user may have different clients and may reconfigure them to drop and re-add an account, etc.), and when they delete from the server. I'd be surprised if any servers strictly limit repeat downloads. On the other hand, any sensible mail client will track the messages it already has and not download them again. If something is doing it repeatedly it is probably broken.
-- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@gmail.com
CentOS mailing list CentOS@centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos
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On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 1:23 PM, chloe K chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca wrote:
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
Most pop3 servers will start from the beginning of a mailbox; if the last download of mail was not completely successful (from start of mailbox to end of mailbox), you get the situation you describe if I understand your comments.
e.g., a customer on dialup that receives a 10 MB email message, can't download it, and tries again.
kind regards/ldv
On Friday 19 February 2010, chloe K chloekcy2000@yahoo.ca wrote:
Thank you for your helping
but why user keeps downloading mails what he downloaded before?
I check the mail client setting and it works fine
If it is not server control, any hints about this problem
It's possible that the client is having trouble downloading one particular message and that's causing it to repeat all the downloads (this used to happen a lot with pop-3 clients). Find and delete the offending message and the problem should be solved.
Hi
What mail server can prevent incoming mail to repeat downloading to the mail client?
Thank you for your help
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I use a service from www.fusemail.com. It's worked quite nicely for my and our small company. I've setup multiple email accounts and they all gel pulled into the same inbox at my fusemail account. I've setup multiple folders and rules to segregate the various email accounts, mailing lists, etc. I use an IMAP connection for my mail client, so any actions I take on the web interface (away from my laptop) such as deleting emails, creating new folders, etc are automatically reflected in my mail client (in my case Kmail) the next time I connect. Thus, if I delete messages from the web interface then my mail client never tries to download those same messages, and if my client has already pulled them then they simply disappear on the next check.
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