[Cialug] Email problem, ..

David Champion dchamp1337 at gmail.com
Mon Jun 4 11:13:46 CDT 2012


Are you sure your POP client isn't deleting the email? That is how it
normally behaves, unless you tell it to "leave mail on the server". Or you
could use IMAP.

-dc

On Mon, Jun 4, 2012 at 11:03 AM, <j.bengtson at mchsi.com> wrote:

> Sounds like a permissions thing...i.e., you have permission to see it on
> the server, but for whatever reason you don't have permission to see it on
> your workstation.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: L. V. Lammert
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Sent: Mon, 4 Jun 2012 09:31:21 -0500 (CDT)
> Subject: [Cialug] Email problem, ..
>
> Actually a brain twister:
>
> I check emails first directly on the server first via Pine, then POP them
> to my workstation after 'processing' (removing SPAM, daily log emails,
> ..).
>
> I watched an email *disappear* this AM DURING DOWNLOAD! This has happened
> before, but this time I actually saw it happen.
>
> No filters in play on the email client, the message is not in the inbox
> after download (while the rest ARE), nor it is in trash; it just
> disappeared without a
> trace (including attachments) from the server - not in ./Maildir/tmp,
> ./Maildir/cur, or ./Maildir/new.
>
> Any thought on what might cause this or how to troubleshoot? Nothing in
> maillog or messages during the download period, ..
>
>        Thanks!
>
>        Lee
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