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..
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