Re: [Ilohamail-users] how to undelete email

[Scott N. <Sco...@bo...>]

On 8 Oct 2004 at 9:30, Abdul Rf wrote:

> Dear all,
> 
> I have some problem with my ILohaMail.
> My Customer deleted some of his email, but some others email vanished
> also. Had the method to undelete email in ILohaMail?
> And why the matter like this could happen in my webmail?
> 
> Thanks in advance


Not enough information.  But if I guess about the detail you should 
have included, the messages were deleted from 'INBOX' and you're 
running IlohaMail in POP3 mode.

If that be the case, this is likely why:

1. IlohaMail starts a POP3 session, and produces a produces a message 
list in the clients browser.  IlohaMail now knows the Message ID of 
each that it has sent to the client.

(Meanwhile back at the ranch, new messages come in to the clients 
mailbox on the server.  The server may now have a different Message 
ID for each of the messages queried in the previous POP3 session.)

2. User chooses to delete a message from his 'INBOX'.  IlohaMail 
starts a new POP3 session and deletes the message using the Message 
ID it cached from the previous session, which results in the wrong 
message being deleted.

NOTE: This same scenerio can result in the wrong message being 
displayed when the user reads one.

This has been my experience with v0.8.13.  Had IlohaMail employed the 
POP3 UIDL command (unique identifiers that don't change with 
sessions) this issue would be null and void.

SOLUTION: Rewrite IlohaMail to employ UIDL command or switch to IMAP 
mode...guess which is easier!

> --
> Salam,


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