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My user claims that some of her email disappeared. I went through the mail log and it seems that she deleted the messages herself from home via webmail.

Here are the entries in the mail log:

Nov 25 21:27:38 wp5 ipop3d[24415]: Login user=somebody@somewhere.com host=c-71-198-226-nn.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.226.nn] nmsgs=6/6
Nov 25 21:27:43 wp5 ipop3d[24415]: Logout user=somebody@somewhere.com host=c-71-198-226-nn.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.226.nn] nmsgs=0 ndele=6
Nov 25 21:41:12 wp5 ipop3d[25113]: Login user=somebody@somewhere.com host=c-71-198-226-nn.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.226.nn] nmsgs=0/0
Nov 25 21:41:12 wp5 ipop3d[25113]: Logout user=somebody@somewhere.com host=c-71-198-226-nn.hsd1.ca.comcast.net [71.198.226.nn] nmsgs=0 ndele=0

Can someone explain exactly how the ndel= value is set, and its consequences. I believe her outlook is set to leave messages on the server for 7 days. What impact would this have when viewing messages via webmail?

thanks

new messages = 6
delete messages = 6
new messages = 0
deleted messages =0
this is what the log means. How the pop server is configured ? Does she download them locally ? What kind of impact ? Well, it depends on how the server is configured, if a message is being viewed via webmail, the server can decide that this is 'done' message, and can delete it, but I cannot be sure what her settings are, and the server ones.