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With the demise of PN's own groups, I'll ask here ...
Anyone receiving multiple copies of emails (POP)?
It's happened several times from different senders this weekend, all references and timestamps in headers look identical, so it seems to be multiple delivery rather than multiple sending.
Is your email client configured to "leave a copy on the server"? If so,
the emails will still be sitting on the server after you've downloaded
them - and may get downloaded again when you next do a "Send & Receive".
Roger Mills wrote:
Is your email client configured to "leave a copy on the server"? If
so, the emails will still be sitting on the server after you've
downloaded them - and may get downloaded again when you next do a
"Send & Receive".
Yes, but it's been that way forever, only had the multiple collection
this weekend.
Anyone receiving multiple copies of emails (POP)?Still happening, the pattern seems to be two copies of each email are
Andy Burns wrote:
Anyone receiving multiple copies of emails (POP)?Still happening, the pattern seems to be two copies of each email are received straight away, then a third copy is received after a couple of minutes.
Andy Burns wrote:
Anyone receiving multiple copies of emails (POP)?Still happening, the pattern seems to be two copies of each email are received straight away, then a third copy is received after a couple of minutes.
And I've never seen duplicate emails.
On 14/07/2025 14:49, Abandoned Trolley wrote:
On 13/07/2025 16:28, Andy Burns wrote:
Roger Mills wrote:
Is your email client configured to "leave a copy on the server"? If
so, the emails will still be sitting on the server after you've
downloaded them - and may get downloaded again when you next do a
"Send & Receive".
Yes, but it's been that way forever, only had the multiple collection
this weekend.
I have had this probalem a couple of times in the past, and never got
to the bottom of it (whatever it was) - and it eventually just
disappeared.
I have never been on Plusn
IMAP is great for keeping everything both in your local email software
and on the remote IMAP server. But for most email services that's no
good because you want to keep everything in your email program but are
only allowed to keep a much smaller number of emails on the IMAP server. There is usually no straightforward solution to this problem.
And I've never seen duplicate emails.
but appear to have posted a duplicate ?
IMAP is great for keeping everything both in your local email software
and on the remote IMAP server. But for most email services that's no
good because you want to keep everything in your email program but are
only allowed to keep a much smaller number of emails on the IMAP server. There is usually no straightforward solution to this problem.
On 20/07/2025 21:59, Brian Gregory wrote:If you use Thunderbird you can control much it keeps on each computer,
IMAP is great for keeping everything both in your local email software
and on the remote IMAP server. But for most email services that's no
good because you want to keep everything in your email program but are
only allowed to keep a much smaller number of emails on the IMAP server.
There is usually no straightforward solution to this problem.
I much prefer of model (both for emails and for TV programmes) where I transfer a copy from a server to my PC, and can then keep my own backup
of it.
The problem with IMAP is when you have multiple computers and you want
to keep a permanent copy of emails on-a one computer, but delete copies
of those emails from other computers/tablets/phones after reading them.
IF you delete an email one computer, you delete it from all computers because you are deleting the master copy on the IMAP server.
POP works very well in that situation; the only time that you need a bit
of manual intervention is if you need to blend sent emails from various
PCs into a single master "Sent Items" folder to keep a permanent copy of them. That involves selecting some/all of the Sent Items messages,
dragging and dropping them into a shared folder and then on the "master"
PC, dragging them from that folder into the Sent Items on the master
PC's email program.