Mac Forum / Applications / Eudora / March 2006

I am having a few problems with e-mail, one of which is quite serious in
that it involves lost e-mail. The others are less serious but
nevertheless a bit of a nuisance. I was wondering if anyone had seen any
similar problems. I suspect the problem is on the server, but you never
know....

I have a Mac at home and a Mac at work. Both use Eudora for e-mail using
POP. I have set both Macs up to check for mail on one account. The
primary machine is the Mac at home which I want to ensure has all
messages. Checking on the Mac at work is just for convenience.

The Mac at home specifies that mail remain on the server for 30 days
before being deleted from the server. The Mac at work specifies that
mail should be left on the server indefinitely. So it will stay on the
server until the home Mac has retrieved it.

Here's where we get to the problems.

1. The messages arrive at the Mac at work in a different order to the
messages on the Mac at home. This is rarely consistent. The same
messages sent one after another can arrive in that order, in reverse
order, or in random order on the different machines, and are invariably
in a different order on the two machines.

This is inconvenient, but not serious.

2. Messages will be retrieved on one Mac hours before they are able to
be retrieved on the other. In one case, the delay was about 9 hours.
This occurs even though both Eudors are set to retrieve mail every hour.

Again, this is a nuisance, but at least the message eventually gets here.

3. Some messages retrieved at work never get retrieved at home.

This is very serious, since I am about to leave that employer, and need
to ensure that *all* mail gets to my home Mac.

I have Eudora set to filter spam into a separate  folder. I check this
folder every day for false positives, and the missing messages have
never appeared there on my Mac at home.

I cannot think of anything else under my control that could explain the
missing messages.

Any ideas?

David