🚀 go-pugleaf

os: win3.1, 486-100
pegasus version 2.55
:please e-mail directly if you post:  thank you.


problem: Peg. re-downloads my messages every time I check mail. I do not want
the messages on the server deleted after download.. right now there are
messages a-plenty (509) which i plan on cleaning out but it should still work
(but doesn't):

full problem:

After 2 hours of downloading and screwing around and configuing here, I have a
serious problem.  On my remote account, I have let my "In" messages build up
on the server.  Some may recommend against this for convenience reasons, but
it's my right and I exercise it, and occasionally sweep them into an archive
fill-- anyway, I have apparently 508 messages in there now, all of them marked
'read' on the server since they were downloaded by another program.  When I
set up the program, and first downloaded my mail, I expected these msg's to be
downloaded; they were.  A few minutes later, I decided to check my mail again,
to see if there were any new messages.  The dialer kicked in, and Pegasus
commenced RE-downloading the 508 messages again.  A big pain.  I tried to shut
the program down, but it advised against this during such an 'important'
operation, so I let it, waiting to see if they would show up twice in the same
folder.  Sure enough, 918 messages-- 2 consecutive groups stacked on top of
each other.

        Is this "normal"?  If so, the program has an extremely serious flaw
and should not have been released.  So, I went and tweaked it some more, and
again, and again-- I clicked on "only download unread [new] messages".  Now,
it waits 30 seconds as it "scans" for unread messages, and commeces to
download 509 messages now;  so there is in fact a new messages (which I will
check shortly with this Eudora program), but it doesn't see it, and, even
worse, downloads all messsages every time, so I couldn't even use this program
unless I used terminal a program like Kermit every time to go sweep my
messages into another archive file on the server, or simply let Pegasus delete
all the old messages, which I would consider giving up, and may as well hire
Micro$oft "internet mail" to do the job, which is already configured
correctly, which I don't use because it deletes the server messages no matter
what I tell it to do.

 I really need some serious advice as to whether this is my fault, or if the
program is just so ignorant that it cannot tell an unread from a read message
(even Kermit can do it, and Netscape could do that halfway).  When I use
kermit on my unix account, a new message has an "N" beside it, and once I read
it, or if it has been downloaded by another program but not deleted, there is
no "N", and email programs can tell that, or at least Eudora can..   can you
help me?

        thanks,
        matheas
        myinger@ycp.edu
        york,    PA.

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