[Dovecot] Repeating downloads

Brian T Glenn glenn-dovecot at delink.net
Wed Apr 7 21:14:06 EEST 2004


On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 12:09:25AM -0500, Paul Hanson may have written:
[snip]
> core 1 install.  I'm using primarily IMAP with OpenSSL, however a few
> people use POP3 (over SSL) with outlook 2002 clients.  The problem is that
> with each send and receive another copy of all messages in their Inboxes
> are downloaded.  I have tried closing outlook restarting it etc... nothing
> seems to help unless I tell outlook to remove all messages from the server
> then outlook responds with "messages that outlook was attempting to
> download are no longer on the server." And problem solved.  Not a huge
> deal but others with similar setups may be experiencing the same problems.
> I have postfix for my MTA, every account uses Maildir.  Attached is my
> dovecot.conf.

That sounds about how POP3 works in my experience. How were you 
expecting it to behave differently?

-- 
Brian T Glenn
delink.net Internet Services
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