Leaving mail as unread + max number of emails to download

[benwylie1]

I have set YahooPOPs to download messages, leaving them on the server, unread.

This works wonderfully.

As I am leaving the messages on the server as unread, I would like to limit the number of emails it downloads in one session to 4. So it should download the most recent 4 unread messages and leave them on the server as unread.

However if there are more then 4 unread messages, it seems to have an error:

In Outlook:
Task '127.0.0.1 - Receiving' reported error (0x800CCC90) : 'Your incoming (POP3) e-mail server has reported an internal error. If you continue to receive this message, contact your server administrator or Internet service provider (ISP). The server responded: -ERR message 5 could not be downloaded'

In yahoo pops:
[09/13/04 16:50:21] <username> Command received from email client: RETR 1
[09/13/04 16:50:21] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:22] Content-Type = X-unknown/; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:22] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:24] Content-Type = multipart/alternative; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:24] <username> Response sent: [Email sent to client]
[09/13/04 16:50:24] <username> Command received from email client: RETR 2
[09/13/04 16:50:24] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:25] Content-Type = X-unknown/; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:25] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:26] Content-Type = multipart/alternative; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:26] <username> Response sent: [Email sent to client]
[09/13/04 16:50:26] <username> Command received from email client: RETR 3
[09/13/04 16:50:26] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:27] Content-Type = X-unknown/; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:27] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:28] Content-Type = multipart/alternative; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:28] <username> Response sent: [Email sent to client]
[09/13/04 16:50:28] <username> Command received from email client: RETR 4
[09/13/04 16:50:29] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:30] Content-Type = X-unknown/; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:30] <username> URL: http://in.f83.mail.yahoo.com/ym/.....
[09/13/04 16:50:31] Content-Type = multipart/alternative; filename="foo.bar"
[09/13/04 16:50:31] <username> Response sent: [Email sent to client]
[09/13/04 16:50:31] <username> Command received from email client: RETR 5
[09/13/04 16:50:32] <username> Response sent: -ERR message 5 could not be downloaded

First of all, should this really be an error? All you have done is told it to only download 4 messages. Why does it try and download a 5th. Should it know that there is a 5th?

Secondly, when it gives this error, having downloaded the max number of emails, it doesn't mark these 4 emails as unread as it should.

Is this a bug in the software? Could this be rectified? Is there a setting I could change to make this work?

Thanks for your help!
Ben

[jvaudrey]

see this post for fix http://ypops.sourceforge.net/index.php? ... pic&t=1565