Subj : Re: Disappearing email
To   : comp.os.linux
From : Keith Andrew Parker
Date : Sun Oct 03 2004 11:33 am

Thanks Sybren. I am still trying to find the solution to
this strange problem. Comments to your post are below.

-- Keith

Sybren Stuvel wrote:
> Keith Andrew Parker enlightened us with:

>>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! 

Yes, my use of English was rather inexact!

>>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.
> 

The mail is stored on my ISP's Sun box. I can look at it either via
a web interface or with Mozilla 1.7.3 (set up to use IMAP4). In either
case after about two minutes anything in the INBOX disappears.
Under Win2k, I also can use wither a web interface or Mozilla 1.7.3
(setup the same way). But in these cases, the email just sits in my
INBOX until I either delete it or move it to another folder. There
is something running in my default installation of SuSE Linux 9.3,
that is deleting the mail.

ADDENDUM:  I have noticed that my disappearing email is going
to /var/mail/kparker (not sure of exact location but somewhere
there, as I am writing this from Win2k). Does this mean there is
something retrieving my email with POP3 (whose default policy
is to delete email after retrieval, I am told)?

> 
>>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.
> 

Well I have tried to look at all the cron scripts, and I can't see
what would be doing this.

> 
>>By the way, under Win2k, this problem does not happen.
> 
> 
> IMAP client in Win2k, server still the same you mean?
> 
> Sybren

Thanks again.,

Keith

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