Subj : Re: Disappearing email
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Sybren Stuvel
Date : Sat Oct 02 2004 02:02 pm

Keith Andrew Parker enlightened us with:
> I have just installed SuSE 9.1 Linux (just the trial copy, not
> registered yet). Ninety percent of things seem to work but I have a
> strange email problem

Ok.

> namely, when email arrives in my INBOX (via IMAP4)

It doesn't. You retrieve it from your inbox via IMAP4. It gets there
via other ways, usually SMTP.

> it disappears after about two minutes! If I am quick, I can save the
> email from "destruction" but if I am not there, it is lost.  This
> happens whether I use Mozilla Suite 1.7.3 or just via a web
> interface to my inbox (on a local ISP). I can literally watch the
> email vanish if I wait looking at the INBOX.

This is weird. So, you're saying your IMAP4 server is at your ISP?
Perhaps you need to contact them.

> Is cron or similar setup to delete mail after reading it with POP3?
> Basically, I don't like POP3. I want to leave the mail on the server
> and access all my folders with IMAP4.

Not by default.

> By the way, under Win2k, this problem does not happen.

IMAP client in Win2k, server still the same you mean?

Sybren
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