What's going on with the list?

[Guy Fraser]

Gordon Keehn wrote:

> jludwig wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 2004-04-27 at 20:22, J. Erik Hemdal wrote:
>>
>>>> Is anyone else getting 6 copies of every message?  This is silly!
>>>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>>> - Rick Stevens, Senior Systems Engineer     rstevens at vitalstream.com -
>>>
>>> No.  Things are OK here on that score, but I'm not always seeing my 
>>> postings
>>> getting to the list.
>>>
>>> Erik
>>
>> I'm seeing sporadic dupes and always have, my mail profile should
>> exclude them.
>>  -- jludwig <wralphie at comcast.net>
>
>    Yesterday I had problems which caused me to have to restart 
> downloading messages several times.  Apparently (hey, what do I know?) 
> messages aren't purged from the server until all pending messages are 
> received, so everytime I had to restart the download, it pulled down 
> all the messages, and I ended up with several copies of the earlier 
> ones. Could that be the problem here?  (Note that on one occasion some 
> time ago, I think a download spontaneously restarted itself in the 
> middle, and I got duplicate messages, but it was a while back.)

Yes, and thats a good thing.

Mailservers are not usualy configured to delete messages automaticaly 
once they have been downloaded, your mail client needs  to send a 
command to delete the messages. If your client software gets 
disconnected or barfs before sending the delete command, the server will 
not delete the messages.