Re: [SM-USERS] Squirrelmail POP3 and IMAP Problem.

[Thomas R. S. <squ...@ts...>]

samy lancher said:
> Hi,
> Thankyou for your response.
>
> Outlook is set as follows:
> 1. They are fetching via POP3.
> 2. They are set to leave the messages on the server; this is mainly
> because I would like to check email from both outlook and  Squirrelmail.
>
> If this setting is the problem than is there anyway to fix it and still
> possible to check emails from both outlook and squirrelmail.

Why not simply use Outlook as an IMAP4 client?

>
> Thanks,
> Naveen.
>
>
> mol...@ut... wrote:
>> I am using Squirrelmail-1.4.1 on FreeBSD 4.7 server. Email server has
>> both
>> POP3 and IMAP4. I have WIndows XP workstations. I use both MS outlook
>> and
>> Squirrelmail to check emails.
>> When I open emails through SquirrelMail and than later if I check emails
>> through Outlook, all the previous read mails in outlook are again
>> downloaded on to the machine. How do i restrict emails to get
>> downloaded(in outlook) only once.
>
> I would check your Outlook settings. If they are fetching via POP3, are
> they set to leave the messages on the server? If so, it could be
> re-fetching them when you delete the messages in Outlook. If they're using
> IMAP, I believe they should be synchronizing so you have the same folder
> structure on each side.
>
> I'm doubting it's a SquirrelMail issue as I have the same setup on FreeBSD
> 4.5 and now 4.9 and haven't seen that issue before.
>
> Take care,
> Mike
>
>
>
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Thomas R. Stephenson, CPL
Member of the Pegasus Mail Support Team