On Wednesday, 31. January 2001 13:59, Seth Chaiklin wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have recently encountered a similiar situation, where I also leave
> mail on the POP server, (and where access to the directory where Kmail =
pop
> is reading, so I can describe a hypothesis about why it is happening.)
>
> 1.  General KDE crash, such that Kmail was not shutdown normally.
> 2.  On the POP server (which is Mecury on a Novell server).
> Each message is stored as Y?????.CNM, and after it has been
> read (either by a mailreader on that server, or accessed by POP),
> then the Y is changed to !.
> 3.  For some reason, which I do not  understand, one message which had =
been
> read before the crash did not get its Y changed to !, so now this messa=
ge
> is regularlly being "read" by Kmail.
>
> Is it possible that something similiar has happened on gmx.de?
>
> (and on a light note....this message was from Stephen Kulow telling me:
>
> "But let me note that 2.1beta has way less bugs than 2.0"
>
> My system is:  kdelibs-2.0, kdenetwork-2.0, and qt-2.2.3

I don't know anything about Novell servers, but KMail uses the UIDL comma=
nd.=20
Every message on the server has a unique id. KMail compares the list of U=
IDs=20
on the server with the UIDs of the mails it has already and downloads onl=
y=20
the ones it doesn't have already.
However some anxiant server do not support this command, but gmx.de doesn=
't=20
seem to be one of these.

Well, but if KMail is killed or crashes while downloading it of course is=
 not=20
able to store that information on the hard disc and therefore downloads t=
he=20
mails again.

Regards,
Michael H=E4ckel

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