on 7/5/2011 9:34 AM Bob Hoffman spake the following: > Using centos 5.x, sendmail, as a server, downloading mail with > thunderbird (although this happened with outlook too) > > every 5 or 6 months I open my mail client (thunderbird) and one of my > mail accounts decides to download 1,000 or so mails from my server. Old > mail that I had already downloaded before. > > I changed no settings and everything is the same as it was, but this > happens enough, on all accounts, that it is just weird. It is like it > gets to a certain size and then redownloads the same mails. And they are > the same mails. I have had 'redownloads' of the same emails each time. > > I look in the queue, nothing there...same with the mailboxes in the user > folders, var/spool/mail.... > > these mails are being held somewhere by centos, but I cannot find > them...and they seem to want to all be downloaded again and again every > 6 months.. > > what am I missing? > > thanks You are missing a lot of detail, and also hijacked someone elses thread. What MDA... using pop3 or imap... etc...