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[Fraser Campbell]

On Wednesday 10 December 2003 12:29, Chris Aitken wrote:

> > Tick the box that says 'leave messages on server' in Nestcape
> > email options (also delete deleted mail on server if you have it). Then
> > you can access the same mail from as many clients as you like (with the
> > same settings as shown above).
>
> Interesting that it took a while for someone to suggest the lowest tech
> solution of all! Not that I'm complaining, as I think procmail, fetchmail
> et al are in my very near future. : )

There's a reason it wasn't suggested before, see the problems that you are 
having ...

> I was doing what you suggested
> but, for a reason unbeknownst to me, one machine is not playing nice
> in the sandbox: Even though I have the setting you suggest (along with
> 'when
> deleting a message locally, remove it from the server') the mail does stay
> on
> the server, but the same mail keeps loading over and over. So, I get

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