Re: FN-FORUM loads & loads of the same message

date posted 25th February 2002 22:18

virus-like activity???

thx.
g.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Neil Durant" [EMAIL REMOVED]
To: [EMAIL REMOVED]
Sent: Monday, February 25, 2002 8:55 PM
Subject: Re: FN-FORUM loads & loads of the same message


> Calum Harvie [EMAIL REMOVED] writes
> >What the heck? I've just turned on my 'puter and Outlook has just
> >downloaded 7346 (yes, no decimal point there) messages from
> >Freelancers!!!! More to the point, there are only 4 different
> >messages, each repeated ad infinitum.
> >
> >My mail server is BT connect. Anyone else experiencing this?
>
> If you're collecting your e-mail by POP3, this is something that can
> happen, especially if the mail server is overloaded. What happens is
> that you download a copy of the message, but the server times out before
> receiving the acknowledgement to delete the message, so your POP3 client
> collects the same message again because it was never deleted.
>
> My guess is that it's a BT server problem.
>
> Neil
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> Neil Durant
> Octrix Software Ltd.
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