Communicator and IMAP behavior

[Wilfred Drew]

This may be a little off topic but I haven't found an answer
any where else.  I am using Communicator's Messenger for
e-mail via the IMAP server protocol.  I have noticed for
sometime now that when I am on our mainframe (where the
server is housed)via telnet I will get a message saying I
have new mail. I go to Netscape Messenger  and click on "Get
Msg".  I usually get the message "No New Messages On
Server".  I then go and tell Messenger to "Empty the Trash
Bin".  It does so and then I can click on "Get Msg".  The
message is now there in Messenger.  Sounds crazy to me.  Our
computer people don't know why this happens.

Our LMAP server is a DEC Alpha running the latest version of
PMDF and SMTP in a VMS environment.  Please note that the
messages are there if I read them directly on our mainframe.
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Wilfred Drew (Call me "Bill"); Associate Librarian (Systems,
Reference)
SUNY College of Ag. & Tech.;   P.O. Box 902;  Morrisville,
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