On Tue, 5 Jul 2011, Bob Hoffman wrote: > To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org> > From: Bob Hoffman <bob at bobhoffman.com> > Subject: [CentOS] getting old mail every 5 months or so > > 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. What emails are you refering to Bob - ones specific to this list? Is this email being flushed (deleted) the first time you are downloading it. Using fetchmail I can download emails, and specify either the 'keep' or 'no-keep' option to either download and not delete, or download and delete from the mail server. Kind Regards, Keith Roberts ----------------------------------------------------------------- Websites: http://www.karsites.net http://www.php-debuggers.net http://www.raised-from-the-dead.org.uk All email addresses are challenge-response protected with TMDA [http://tmda.net] -----------------------------------------------------------------