[Cialug] POP mail server mal-function

[Pixie]

On 2012.09.05 22:39, Rob Miller wrote:
> multiple devices
> POP server
> the e-mail service [...] keep[s] a copy of each message

Switch to IMAP.

POP is largely intended for single-client download-and-delete operation. 
  Multiple clients and messages-on-server are not use-cases it handles 
particularly well.

If I had to guess--and bear in mind this is very much a guess--, I'd say 
the device is purging old messages off itself, and then, when it fetches 
messages, because POP sends a listing of /all/ messages rather than 
new-messages-since-last-fetch, the device considers as new the messages 
it had just purged from itself.  Boom!  Month-old "new" mail.

IMAP, on the other hand, is meant for that sort of thing.

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