Spamihilator

px03afk hat geschrieben:It therefore looks as though the failure to retrieve messages has upset the list of those which have already been processed, resulting in them being downloaded again as they presumably are no longer present in the list of those already downloaded.

This actually looks like it could be the reason for this issue. I will check this and return to you for sure.

Cheers,
Michel

Hi px03afk!

I have read again all our discussion. You have described your findings in the client.log file very clear. To me, it seems there to lie the gist of the matter. So I have written an e-mail to Michel Krämer, the program author of Spamihilator, to ask him for help. Could you once again give more details about how your three machines work? (Day and night, all five minutes, 1000 mails a day, the three machines in three towns in the world, which one marks the mails as received ...?)

Kind regards,
Chactory

Hallo px03afk!

Sorry for not answering, have been sick with a very bad cold, higher 39°C fever over seven days ... Answer coming soon, sorry again.

Gruß
Chactory

Problem has come back again, first time it's happened in a long time. However this time it's really bad on just one machine, I think this is about the tenth time it's downloaded some messages. It really would be helpful if something could be done about this.

I am currently using the 32 bit version of 1.5.0 and have been doing so for some time.

Hallo Chactory!

I want to add some info:
I am using Outlook Express 6
I have multiple email accounts (also on different servers)
I also have alias accounts for my main email account.
Only the mail for the main account and its aliasses are set up to be left on the server.
The mail on the server is only for webmail access.

Gruß
Henk

Hallo Chactory!

I have exactly the same problem.
Since I leave the mail on the server for some time, I got all my mails downloaded double in outlook express.
Please solve this problem.
I am using version 1.0.0

Gruß
Henk

Hallo px03afk!



Regards,
Chactory

I'm not sure that deleting from only one machine will do much good if the issue is with multiple machines contacting the server at the same time. However, whatever the reason for the failure it still doesn't make complete sense to me to remove the list of mails already downloaded. I'll try to contact Michael.

Thanks

Presumably Michel, the program author of Spamihilator, lets the spamfilter program retrieve mails again when it happens to fail with complete and correct retrieve.

Therefore, it would be of interest to me, why there occurr errors so often. I'm suspecting that it could happen, when two of your three computers want to fetch mails or delete mails on the server coincidentally.

Sorry for being not very helpful to you. If its very uncomfortable to you, please try my idea to let delete on server by only one of the three computers or try to contact Michel by a personal message ("Private Nachricht senden").

Just happened again and I took a look at both the Client.log and Server.log files. The only thing I notice is that on the previous run the Client.log shows a list of UID's followed by a list of what appears to be a list of messages along with their sizes. There then follows an entry where the connection to the server worked OK but there is an error 'One or more messages could not be received' but the connection finishes. The very next entry has the UID list again, follows by the message list, followed by a series of RETR entries for each of the messages.

It therefore looks as though the failure to retrieve messages has upset the list of those which have already been processed, resulting in them being downloaded again as they presumably are no longer present in the list of those already downloaded.

Surely, even if there is a communications problem with the server, the list of messages which have previously been downloaded shouldn't be cleared.

Hallo px03afk!

I would check the appearance of such twicely received mails and compare all accessory commands or properties.

I have another thought, I would try to let remove from the server only by one of the three computers.

Gruß,
Chactory

What would I be looking for in the log files? Part of the problem is that unless you happen to be looking at the download when the problem occurs you only know it's happened when you look in your mailbox. Is there any more diagnostic I could/should switch on and is it worth capturing unique.db periodically to find out if info is being lost in it.

Hello px03afk!

px03afk hat geschrieben:Where is the information held that Spami/Outlook uses to decide whether a message is a new one and therefore needs to be downloaded.

If i remember correctly it is the file "uniqueid.db" (SQLite Database)
within Spami's User-Folder (a.k.a. [Partition]\Users\[USER]\AppData\Roaming\Spamihilator

Regards,
Quellcore

Hi David!

px03afk hat geschrieben:Where is the information held that Spami/Outlook uses to decide whether a message is a new one and therefore needs to be downloaded.

Please look into the files "client.log" and "server.log" to learn more about that. I think it is a very intelligent idea to check this question.

Kind regards, Chactory

Hi Chactory,

When it happens it may repeat the messages on the very next download, after an hour or a day or a week, i.e. it appears to be completely random and unpredictable. Also, so far as I can tell, all messages still on the server are downloaded again, whether they are spam or not, although I think that Spami doesn't report spam messages again.

Where is the information held that Spami/Outlook uses to decide whether a message is a new one and therefore needs to be downloaded.

David