I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered. Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?) Thanks Hans
* H du Plooy (linuser@ananzi.co.za) [030620 23:36]:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
You could user procmail to have all the email from each account dropped into corrisponding email boxes under the same directory. So under ~/Mail you could have mailboxes that are for each of your accounts and you can have rules that work for each account. Just use fetchmail to pull the mail but hand it off to procmail for sorting and filtering which is what procmail is good at. -- Ben Rosenberg ---===---===---===--- mailto:ben@whack.org ----------------------------------------------------------- The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American recently passed each other going in the opposite direction.
The 03.06.21 at 08:35, H du Plooy wrote:
the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Are you using procmail? It is easy to duplicate mails with it. Activate verbose procmail loging, and read it. -- Cheers, Carlos Robinson
On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:35 am, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
Are you perchance using the 'keep' function to keep mail on the server? I have found that doesn't work in fetchmail.
Thanks Hans
-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/21/03 10:43 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "There is a coherent plan in the universe, though I don't know what it's a plan for."
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On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:35 am, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
Are you perchance using the 'keep' function to keep mail on the server? I have found that doesn't work in fetchmail.
From the first quote above: I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either.
He is probably routing thru procmail and has a recipe action causing this. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:04 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bruce Marshall
[06-21-03 09:47]: On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:35 am, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
And having fetchmail read a mail 'left on the server' does not make that email a duplicate on the server. It just means that fetchmail will continue to read it forever since it doesn't work right. I read his post correctly. (but you just keep checking up on all of us to make sure we are with the program)
Are you perchance using the 'keep' function to keep mail on the server? I have found that doesn't work in fetchmail.
From the first quote above: I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either.
He is probably routing thru procmail and has a recipe action causing this. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
-- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 06/21/03 11:24 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "My theology, briefly, is that the universe was dictated but not signed."
* Bruce Marshall
On Saturday 21 June 2003 11:04 am, Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bruce Marshall
[06-21-03 09:47]: On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:35 am, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
And having fetchmail read a mail 'left on the server' does not make that email a duplicate on the server. It just means that fetchmail will continue to read it forever since it doesn't work right.
I read his post correctly.
(but you just keep checking up on all of us to make sure we are with the program)
Sharp today. But he states that it is sporatic, not continuing *forever*. "Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there.' You sure are making an effort to publicly degrade me. I hope that you are getting enjoyment from it. My last and only comment about your attacks. -- Patrick Shanahan Registered Linux User #207535 http://wahoo.no-ip.org @ http://counter.li.org
Patrick Shanahan wrote:
* Bruce Marshall
[06-21-03 09:47]: On Saturday 21 June 2003 2:35 am, H du Plooy wrote:
Any clues as to why this is happening? man fetchmail wasn't a lot of help, google mostly gave me links to fetchmail source (?)
Are you perchance using the 'keep' function to keep mail on the server? I have found that doesn't work in fetchmail.
He is probably routing thru procmail and has a recipe action causing this.
H. is using Evolution, right? So, just another guess: the 'server type' for incoming mail is set to POP, but Evolution also sees the locally stored mail that was just d/l'd by fetchmail. SH
On Saturday 21 June 2003 07:35, H du Plooy wrote:
I'm still having trouble with fetchmail. It fetches mail from five different POP3 accounts and drops in in my /var/mail/hans. Some mails are duplicated. Sometimes it would be all the mail in one box, sometimes a few here and there. I've verified that the mails aren't on the servers in duplicate, and don't get downloaded twice either. It just somehow doubles when being delivered.
I had a similar problem with a pop account a while ago. It turned out that the pop server was not deleting collected mails until the connection was closed. Problem was that about 50% of the time the connection was just dropped, rather than closed - if you see what I mean Dylan -- Sweet moderation Heart of this nation Desert us not We are between the wars - Billy Bragg
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