[Dovecot] Mails repopping

[Simon Brereton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Charles Marcus [mailto:CMarcus at Media-Brokers.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 09, 2011 2:51 PM

> On 2011-09-09 1:07 PM, Simon Brereton <simon.brereton at buongiorno.com>
> wrote:
> > I have a server that's been running Courier for about 6 years and
> in
> > all that time I think I've only ever had 1 issues where an entire
> mail
> > box was repopped by a webmail client.
> 
> I don't understand...
> 
> Webmail doesn't speak 'pop' (that I've ever heard of)... so how does
> a webmail client 'repop' emails? What webmail is this?

It's Horde webmail.  Webmail does pop.  Yahoo and Gmail do it too.

When I first set up the server, it did it on first login - obviously because the server had changed but it's doing it once a week now (and in fact, it did it twice today).  It's not fatal, no one will die.  It is a PITA though.

Simon