Subject: POP server mail deleting Date: Mon, 11 Sep 2000 14:51:40 +0200 From: Henning Schnoor <henning.schnoor@gmx.net> Organization: Another Netscape Collabra Server User Newsgroups: netscape.public.mozilla.mail-news Hi, Yesterday I fetched my mail (about 500 emails) from a POP server (using M17), and the connetcion broke after about 200 mails. When I restarted downloading, there were still 500 mails. I think the mail client should delete every mail directly after downloading, so you don't have to download all of them again. This *does* happen quite often, it's not just a thepretical problem. What do you think? See you, Henning -- http://schnoor.debox.de

No data loss, just duplicates. Future...

adding mail4 keyword ....

reassigning jefft's bugs to naving

same behavior here when you press stop during the download. it's a very unpleasant behavior

I suppose that's not bug in mozilla. POP3 protocol deletes mail from server when and only when QUIT is issued. All messages, marked as deleted reset to normal state, if current pop connection is dropped without QUIT command (safety measure, to prevent loss of data). Only possible workaroud for mozilla is to 'remember' alredy downloaded mails and then to delete complete maildrop on server

this functionality was present in Netscape 4.x it's very annoying because when there's a network or server problem in the middle of a donwload of one thousand mails, you can end up with lots of duplicate mails. on the pop side, it's just a matter of download mail number x, then delete mail number x (ie command DELE x) (easy and completely doable) on the mozilla side, it seems pop is implemented as a state machine. so the fix would be to set the machine to delete after each mail is downloaded and then going to donwload the next mail at this moment the state is not changed to delete until all mails are downloaded which is not the good solution.

marking nsbeta1-

*** Bug 60504 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Note to whoever works on this one--This behavior also occurs if the user has marked Leave messages on server. The fix for this should also include the situation where messages are marked as "Read" or whatever the official POP term is for messages that once downloaded, remain on the server but will not be downloaded in the future.

This bug should now be fixed. I have added code to save the POP download state, no matter what your preferences are ?

works now for me with build 2001041610 on linux (using pop and not leaving messages on server)

verified based on the previous comments

Sorry, this still does not work. I'm using build 2001041804 on Win32, and did the following: I started downloading mails from a POP account, there were 157. During the download (after downloading about 100 mails), I killed Mozilla with the Windows Task Manager to "simulate" a crash. I restarted Mozilla, and restarted the download. I expected Mozilla to download the ~50 mails which were left, but instead all 157 mails were downloaded again. Does this fix not appear in the Win32 builds yet?

killing an app like that, will be an abrupt end and will not allow any code to be executed at all. I don't think much can be done about it in the POP3 code.

Also this bug is about connection broke. I am pretty sure it would work if you killed your internet connection.