[tpop3d-discuss]tpop3d doesn't delete mails [ms outlook 2002]

Matthew Trent mtrent at localaccess.com
Tue, 3 Feb 2004 10:07:40 -0800


On Tuesday 03 February 2004 09:35 am, Chris Lightfoot wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 06:33:13PM +0100, Jarek Woloszyn wrote:
> > I've just tried to run tpop3d on my server and have a weird problem.
> > When somebody uses MS Outlook 2002 (from MS Office XP), tpop doesn't
> > delete mails (sometimes).
>
> This is probably a failure to send a QUIT command properly
> -- one is needed for the deletions to take place. But can
> you try running tpop3d with the -v option so that it will
> log the commands and responses.

That also partially explains the duplicate emails I've seen. Outlook clients 
connect, retrieve, delete, and then timeout. Then, of course, the message is 
downloaded again.
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Matt
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