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

[samy l. <was...@ya...>]

Nope. You got it totally wrong. I understand the working of POP3 and IMAP. Below should explain in detail.
 
1. First i check my emails through Outlook. The outlook is setup so that a copy of messages are left in the server(so that i can check the same emails using Squirrelmail).
2. Next i check my emails using Squirrelmail.
3. Next when i open my outlook again, all the messages that were downloaded previously gets downloaded again. Therefore the outlook has two copies of all my messages now.
I hope it explains the problem more clearly.
 
Thanks,
Naveen.

Alan in Toronto <Ala...@pu...> wrote:
samy lancher said:
> Hi,
>
> 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'm not entirely clear on your situation, so here is what I *think* you're
saying:
1. You read messages in SquirrelMail. You don't delete those messages, so
they remain in your Inbox, but they have been marked as "read".
2. Later, you download your mail into Outlook. You find that, in addition
to brand new messages, also downloaded are messages in your Inbox that
you previously read in SquirrelMail.

That is normal behaviour. POP mail clients and IMAP clients work under
different paradigms. IMAP clients read messages on the server, and leave
messages on the server. POP clients download all new mail, thereafter
normally deleting the server copies (unless you set Outlook to "leave
messages on server").

So, Outlook will download any messages it finds in Inbox that it has not
previously downloaded. Outlook does not recognize the "read" flag left by
SquirrelMail. If you want to save some messages on the server, and not
have Outlook download them, move them into a different folder.


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