* Bruce Marshall
On Monday 05 May 2003 11:52, Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote:
Newly installed fetchmail and configured it with fetchmailconf on my Suse8.1. I am downloading and sorting out my email still on a seperate system in DrDos and I not yet ready with my home network setup so I want to keep the emails on my isp when I have a look at them with Suse. With "fetchmail -keep" that works but with a flaw. Everytime fetchmail thinks it should contact my ISP all emails which it had already downloaded are downloaded again. That means with the suse list only a rapid filling up of my harddisc with a multitude of the same emails. Can that be solved with a command that I have overlooked?
It's been that way ever since I started using fetchmail (7.3?)
There may be a way to prevent it but I've never found it.
man fetchmail under "RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES" para3 The normal mode of fetchmail is to try to download only ew' messages, leaving untouched (and undeleted) messages you have already read directly on the server (or fetched with a previous fetchmail --keep). But you may find that messages you've already read on the server are being fetched (and deleted) even when you don't specify --all. There are several reasons this can happen. One could be that you're using POP2. The POP2 protocol includes no repre sentation of ew' or d' state in messages, so fetchmail must treat all messages as new all the time. But POP2 is obsolete, so this is unlikely. -- Patrick Shanahan Please avoid TOFU and trim >quotes< http://wahoo.no-ip.org Registered Linux User #207535 icq#173753138 @ http://counter.li.org Linux, a continuous *learning* experience