Duplicate mail in mailbox

Hello,
Some users have complained of receiving old mail in their mailboxes. These old mails had been received some while ago, and just "arrive" in users' mailboxes.
The way out is to delete the mails and reconstruct -rf the mailbox.
This has happened about 5 times in approximately 4 months. Each time, it only concerns one user.
The machine(s) this happens on runs:
iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built Mar 3 2004)
libimta.so 5.2 HotFix 1.25 (built 17:45:10, Mar 3 2004)
SunOS cro-su-07.croissy.domain.com 5.8 Generic_108528-21 sun4u sparc SUNW,Sun-Fire-280R
Is there a fix/patch? Has this problem been seen before?
Note: The way mails "arrive" in the mailbox is kind of mystical, as I have no trace in the mail logs. I was suspecting the pop daemon to be the cause.
Cheers,
Hyde

We wouild need more data in order to find a cause. As far as I know, there's no known bug that causes messages that have been deleted to come back.
Some admin tasks can cause messages to become "unread", or to come back, such as removing a store.exp file and the reconstructing the user.
Moving a user from one partition to another partition can cause messages to come back, IF the user is a POP user, and has "leave a copy on server" set.
Yes, there are fixes post hotfix 1.25. Patch 2 is publically available, and has fixes in it. None that I know of will address this particular issue.

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