kmail fetches messages from pop3 server repeatedly

[Andreas Mahel]

Hi Anonymous,

off-topic answer: no, not really. It mainly means that you cannot manage
messages (and especially folders) on the server from your local client.
The interactions possible are mainly "list inbox", "fetch single mail",
"delete mail". But you are not required to remove the mail from the
server once you have fetched it.

And a POP3 email client can do some bookkeeping about which mails it
already fetched before, and choose not to get them a second time (most
POP3 servers provide a unique message id for this).

Ho the other hand, there actually are mail "servers" out there which
follow some "deliver once" paradigm. This is not server specific
behavior, though, not  part of the POP3 protocol.

Regards,
Andreas

Anonymous bin ich wrote:
> Hi Andreas!
>
> Off-topic question: Doesn't POP3 means that fetched mails are not on
> the server anymore?
>
> On 10/12/09, Andreas Mahel <andreas.mahel at gmx.net> wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>
>> trying to use KMail, I've encountered a problem which might force me to
>> postpone switching to KMail as my primary email client on Windows.
>>
>> For various reasons (mainly because I need to have access to my email from
>> several computers), I configure my POP accounts to leave fetched
>> messages on
>> the server. This works very well for all my accounts with KMail on Linux
>> (and
>> with various other mail clients on Windows).
>>
>> However, KMail on Windows seems not to remember the messages it already
>> downloaded, and happily fetches them all again on the next Check Mail
>> action.
>>
>> Some technical info about my environment:
>> Windows XP Professional SP2
>> KDE 4.3.2, MinGW4
>>
>> Is there anything I could do to assist in fixing this?
>>
>> Ah, yes, and sadly KMail also wouldn't send this mail.... so I'll have
>> to fall back to Thunderbird again.
>> For the interested: the send mail error message is: "An error occurred
>> during authentication: SASL(-4): no mechanism available: Unable to find
>> a callback: 2"
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Andreas
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