[Dovecot] pop3 with lmos results in multiple downloads

[Reuben Farrelly]

Hi,

At 01:54 a.m. 3/12/2004, Juerd wrote:
>One of our users wants to use POP3 with leave-mail-on-server (LMOS).
>That's great and works well for most people. But for some reason, they
>MUA (outlook) downloads messages more than once. As the MUA asks for
>messages, I'm sure it's Outlook's fault, but I was wondering if there is
>anything that can be done about this on the servern side, or if anyone
>knows how to fix Outlook.
>
>I'm sending this here, because they report that with non-dovecot servers
>it does work correctly.
>
>They do not want IMAP, because they want to use Outlook, which cannot
>support both Exchange and IMAP simultaneously.
>
>This user has multiple accounts, and only for some of them things go
>wrong. A temporary fix is to remove the mail from the server once, but
>after a few more messages arrive, the problem starts all over again.

Outlook 2003 does support the use of both an Exchange and IMAP mailbox 
simultaneously - I use it myself at work.  Are you using some older version 
of Outlook?

reuben