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Re: duplicate messages



Am 2003-10-09 11:15:41, schrieb Jim Ford:

>I had the same problem. It was caused by a combination of my slow machine I
>use for recovering mail and the overhead of SpamAssassin. I had fetchmail
>polling my server every 10 mins, but sometimes there was so much mail at the
>server that it wasn't all picked up within the 10 min slot - so _another_
>fetchmail process was started. As the mail I'd already received hadn't been
>cleared from the server, it was picked up again. I ended with _lots_ of dupes!
>Problem solved by using spamd/spamc and svendeleter to ditch the Sven mails
>at the server.

Have you tried to fetch mails with IMAP ?
# ~/fetchmailrc
defaults:
    expunge     1

will work wonder. Please note, that this Option does not work with pop3


>Hope this helps!
>
>Regards: Jim Ford

Greetings
Michelle

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