207109 - pop3 'leave mail on server' keeps re-getting my mail

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(MailNews Core :: Networking: POP, defect)

Description

[VoodooChile]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

Mail is being downloaded every time it checks for it. So I get all my mail
double(and more), and there's (almost) never a new one. Mozilla seems to forget
that it has already downloaded these messages.
If I delete them, I don't have to wait long before it starts all over again. I
have this Mozilla version installed for some weeks (months??), and never had
this problem, and suddenly it's there...(and I have a bandwith and data limit
from my isp that doesn't like this :S)

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. create a pop3 account, enable 'leave mail on server'
2. get mail on that account (so you get a collection)

Actual Results:  
it worked, and suddenly, it stopped working correctly. 
Mail leaves on server (that's correct), but Mozilla forgets it downloaded it, so
it keeps doing that every time it checks for new mail.

Expected Results:  
get no mail when there are no new messages. Only new mail should be downloaded
(and kept on server).

Comment 1

[Dan Backes]

This works for me 2003052508. Does mozilla work if you tell it to delete the
messages from server once you delete them from you client?

Comment 2

[VoodooChile]

hmm, it's quite weird, now you said that, I marked that option, and got only
that one new mail, so I think, that's fixed. 
When I delete that mail, and check my webmail, I see that mail still being
there, so is that another bug?
But hey, I didn't need that delete option, but it stops Mozilla from getting all
my mail, so I'm happy :)
I'll leave my PC on tonight, and see if it keeps working. (I have disabled that
account all day...it was quite irritating)

Comment 3

[Rick Bull]

Not sure if this is the problem, but I kept getting a new blank e-mail in one of
my folders after a crash. Then I compacted my folders (from File) and the
problem went away. Maybe there's a chance you had a corrupt mail file too?

Comment 4

[David Hartig]

I get the same problem. I have reproduced the problem in 1.4b and 1.4 RC1.
However the problem does not exist in 1.4a. 

Comment 5

[Oliver Desch]

Have exactly the same problem. Traced the POP3 connection and found
out that Mozilla 1.5b doesn't seem to interpret the UIDL values returned from
the server. Client win2000 SP4, Mozilla 1.5b, multiple mailboxes some IMAP others
POP3 and a news account. Compared it with Outlook POP3 access and the difference
is the action after the client issued the UIDL command sent to the server.
Outlooks quits immediately, which is correct the e-mail was already downloded,
Mozialla downloads it again.
 

Comment 6

[Jacek Piskozub]

Confirming per comments #4 & 5. 

A similar thing happens to me about once per week on two computers I use to read
mail (both Windows ME, both most recent 1.5 branch builds). I am not sure if
this is the same bug as it does not happen every time.

Comment 7

[Daniel Merbecks]

User-Agent:
Mozilla 1.8a4 
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; de-AT; rv:1.8a4) Gecko/20040927 

I've the problem, that, if i use this feature all is ok in the same session. if
i close and reopen mozilla, the mails are downloaded again...

Using Mozilla 1.7.3 I've not had this problem...
Could someone see this problem also???

Kind Regards
Daniel Merbecks

Comment 8

[Mike Cowperthwaite]

Still an issue with TB2/SM1.8.1?  See bug 240049 comment 28 & 29, and
bug 352998.

Comment 9

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

sorry for the spam.  making bugzilla reflect reality as I'm not working on these bugs.  filter on FOOBARCHEESE to remove these in bulk.

Comment 10

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

with both bugs of comment 8 fixed and no response, closing this incomplete.
=> incomplete

but please comment if you still  see the problem.