> Dear all, > I use Thunderbird 31.6.0 on Mac OS 10.6.8 to download my e-mails. > Since this morning, Thunderbird downloads several times the same e-mails > from the list, some even being from yesterday. It occurs only with > e-mails from the R-help and not with my other professional and private > e-mails.
> I also checked that it was not a problem with the server on which I get > e-mails from the R-help: the problematic e-mails are erased every time > from the server but are received several times. So I would say that the > R-help server has sent these e-mails several times. > I am wondering if there is currently an issue with the R-help server. Is > someone else having the same problem? Not having the same problem, but an explanation from the place where the server runs: The R mailing list server indeed has had hard times, as it seems since early Sunday (CEST), and a complete time out for a few hours during this morning. The symptoms have been that some e-mails were badly delayed.... and --- as you have experienced --- mail server timeouts do lead to e-mail being sent more than once. This is the consequence of a safe e-mail server behavior: If an e-mail "may have been lost", rather send it again. As some say: Better error on the safe side. Martin Maechler ETH Zurich > Thanks! > Ivan > -- > Ivan Calandra, ATER > University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne > 51100 Reims, France ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.
