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Old 12-24-2007, 04:06 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by meiphones_brill View Post
Yes - pop3 can't cope with simultaneous access of the same mailbox. You can actually screw the mailbox up completely if you're unlucky. There's no work-around unfortunately. An ISP can tinker with the pop locking but you're unlikely to have any joy with a large ISP.

IMAP is a better solution if you can use it.
This is my personal email - not my corporate email. There is no Exchange server involved, thus IMAP is not an option.

This is a POP email server (mail.comcast.net), and from what I've read there should be no issue with more than one client accessing the messages - so long as they don't delete the messages from the server after fetching them. I don't know about simultaneous access or any potential issue there, but the testing I was doing last night was sequential, possibly a minute or more apart.
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