[BlueOnyx:12746] Re: Uncool email

[shouldbe q931]

On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 8:34 PM, Ralf Quint <Smoothwall at gmx.net> wrote:
> At 10:04 AM 4/2/2013, Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet wrote:
>>My guess is it isn't the "list" that is doing this.  It would not know
>>how, since it isn't storing up every email every queued just for you.
>>Once it gets an email, it sends 'em out.   In other words: it's not the
>>list.
>
> Exactly! I would have expected that someone in this business would be
> able to determine this by how a list server works. The list server
> simply wouldn't know how to send out such a large number of emails
> AGAIN. And certainly not to just one single user.
>
>>I would start looking at the mailserver and your client.   Are you using
>>IMAP or POP3?  If you're using POP3, are you storing copies of the
>>message on the server?  DON'T DO THAT.  Switch to IMAP if you're going
>>to keep messages on the server, for instance for syncing with multiple
>>devices/clients.
>>
>>Otherwise, what's up with the client(s) that you are using?   Did
>>anything change? Add a new device lately?
>
> That's why I already asked why kind of email client he's using. It's
> a bad habit these times that people for example are more and more
> using web browsers instead of real email programs, with all the
> related issues...
>
> Ralf
>
What's wrong with reading mail is a web browser? it avoids problems
with POP3 clients downloading messages more than once...