Start check for MOTD

Completed check for MOTD

MOTD stands for "Message Of The Day". This process in VPOP3 checks for announcement updates and automatic software updates.

Pruning downloaded message ID table

Finished pruning message ID table

VPOP3 keeps a list of all the messages it has seen in a remote POP3 mailbox and when it has downloaded them, etc. This can be accessed through the Messages tab in the Mail Collector settings in VPOP3. This status message appears when VPOP3 is deleting old message details from this list. This doesn't mean it is deleting the messages themselves, just their reference from this list.

Logged onto "<servername>"

This means that VPOP3 has successfully logged on to a remote POP3 mail server. The <servername> value is the name you have assigned to the Mail Collector in VPOP3.

xx messages on "<servername>" (yyy bytes)

This shows how many messages the remote POP3 mail server is reporting that there are, and the total size of those messages. These numbers are a copy of what the remote server is reporting. So, if those numbers do not match what you expect, the problem is with the remote POP3 mail server, not with VPOP3.

xx old messages

This number shows how many messages are on the remote POP3 mail server which VPOP3 thinks it has already seen. If you have told VPOP3 to leave messages on the remote POP3 server for several days, this number could be large. You can tell VPOP3 to re-download messages using the Messages tab in the Mail Collector settings in VPOP3.

Note that, like all POP3 clients, VPOP3 tracks whether it has seen messages before by using message unique IDs (UIDs) assigned by the remote POP3 mail server. If the remote POP3 server regenerates these IDs, VPOP3 may download duplicate messages, or if the remote POP3 server reuses IDs, VPOP3 may think it has already downloaded a new message, so not download it again.

POP3 Client Deleted x messages

This shows how many messages VPOP3 deleted from the remote POP3 mail server on this connection.

POP3 Client Retrieved x messages (yy kb)

This shows how many messages VPOP3 downloaded from the remote POP3 mail server on this connection.

Deleting old message x

If you have told VPOP3 to leave messages on the remote POP3 server for several days, then when it is that many days since VPOP3 downloaded the message, VPOP3 will delete the previously-downloaded message from the remote server. It displays the "Deleting old message" text when it does that.

Retrieving xx (yy kb)

This means that VPOP3 is retrieving message number xx from the remote POP3 server. VPOP3 will download messages in the order that they are on the remote server.

If you have told VPOP3 to leave messages on the remote POP3 server for several days, then it may not start at message number 1 because that may already have been downloaded previously.

In some rare cases, the remote server may not keep the messages in the order they arrived, so, in that case, VPOP3 may not download the messages in date/time order, and it may appear to miss message numbers out because the previously downloaded messages are interspersed amongst the new messages. VPOP3 cannot tell when a message was sent without downloading it, so it will always download in the order that they exist on the remote server.

Receiving message from "<email address>"

This means that VPOP3 is downloading from a remote POP3 server a message which is from the displayed email address.

Receiving message for "<username>"

This means that VPOP3 is downloading a message for the displayed user(s). This isn't the email address specified in the message being downloaded, but the VPOP3 user to whom the message is going to be delivered.

Skipping Collector "<collector name>" - Disabled

This means that VPOP3 is not downloading messages from the specified Mail Collector, because that Collector has been disabled in the VPOP3 settings.