What's going on with the list?

Jay Daniels drs at pointyhats.com
Wed Apr 28 14:24:26 UTC 2004


On Wed, Apr 28, 2004 at 10:04:29AM -0400, 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.)
>    Cheers,
> Gordon Keehn

Possible.  I use fetchmail, but I thought while reading the messages
in mutt I had skipped a few and they reappeared this morning.  Perhaps
I did skip them and just didn't delete them.


jay





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