On Thu, 2005-04-28 at 17:08 +0200, Marten Lehmann wrote:
I'm getting the following error while Mozilla Mail is downloading >4000 emails:
The RETR command did not succeed. Error retrieving message. Mail server xxx responded: Message is deleted.
So what's the error? Can't I retrieve a message, that has been marked as deleted before?
That's right. Like the POP3 spec says:
RETR msg
Arguments:
a message-number (required) which may NOT refer to a
message marked as deleted.. DELE msg
The POP3 server marks the message as deleted. Any future
reference to the message-number associated with the message
in a POP3 command generates an error. The POP3 server does
not actually delete the message until the POP3 session
enters the UPDATE state.If the Mesage-ID wouldn't exist, the error message would be different. I don't know what Mozilla Mail is doing and on which message id it is failing. Also, there's no output in the logfiles. Any ideas?
I looked at the code and didn't see any problems with how DELE/RETR handles the messages. So it sounds like Mozilla deletes something and tries to fetch it again later for some reason..