Hello all, I know this is rather off-topic, but it concerns a problem that is keeping me from effectively using my SuSE Linux box, so it kinda sorta applies ;) Does anyone else out there who uses Yahoo! Mail, specifically the POP3 service, have problems w/ flushing large amounts of mail from their Inbox? In my case, I was on the road for a week or so, and am subscribed to several high-volume mailing lists. I got one of the larger 25MB Yahoo! mailboxes just for situations like this, where I had a lot of mail piling up. By the time I got home, I had around 2200 messages in my inbox. I went to download them w/ fetchmail, using 'fetchmail -a' so as to retrieve even the ones I had viewed while on the road. An hour or so later (21kbs modem connection), I had downloaded them all. An hour or so later, I ran fetchmail again, to snag anything that had arrived while I had been downloading the original mailbox, plus anything since. Imagine my suprise when I see fetchmail start to download _2300_ messages! WTF? I've had this problem in the past, also when I let the mailbox get up around a similar size. That time, running 'fetchmail -a -F -K' did the trick (-a=get all,-F=force flush,-K=no keep'). This time, though, nothing seems to quite work. I was up over 3000 messages yesterday. I tried moving things into folders in my Yahoo! Mail account, i.e. suse messages into a suse directory, openbsd messages into an openbsd directory, etc. I got the 'Inbox' down to around 1300 messages that weren't easily categorizable by the subject/sender. Then I tried fetchmail -a -F -K again. Same results. Finally, I tried using Netscape Messenger to directly download from the Yahoo! pop server. Somehow, Messenger downloaded 4500+ messages (there's only ~1300+, remember), and unexplicably, 950+ still remain in my Inbox on Yahoo! WTF? Hellllpppp!!! Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated, as I am getting _NO_ response from Yahoo!'s feedback department, nor have I ever in regards to the earlier occurences of this problem. Thanks for your time, Monte ===== "Here, catch! Don't worry, it won't bite...BBZZZZAAAAPPP!!!...much <snicker>" What an unsuspecting mechanic hears as he learns to never, ever, play 'Catch' with a bored electrician ;) Monte Milanuk __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/ -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/support/faq