pop clients getting duplicate emails from a fc4 server

[Jeff Vian]

On Wed, 2005-12-14 at 15:38 -0800, Christian Motta wrote:
> For some reason my clients that use pop to check email  will keep 
> downloading the same email, or group of emails, or all email from the 
> server over and over again.
> 
> I tell clients to keep mail on the server for 30 days - so they can use 
> webmail if need be
> 
> Most of them use outlook but I have seen it happen to thunderbird too.
> 
> I can't figure out is this is a client / dovecot / sendmail issue.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> btw the server is a new fc4 box
> 
This is usually a client issue.

Most have an option to leave mail on server, and pop does not usually
keep track of what has/has not been seen.  Imap works better in that
regard.

> thx
> -chris
>