Re: pop3 config question to avoid duplicate messages
On 13:37 Sun 31 Jul 2005, Jerry VanBrimmer wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2005 at 12:06:24PM +1000, Troy Piggins wrote:
> >
> > Something like this in your ~/.fetchmailrc :
> >
> > poll mail.examle.com with proto POP3
> > user 'lc278' there with password 'sekrit' is 'laran' here
> > options keep
> >
> > The options keep part leaves messages on server, and fetchmail won't
> > fetch them unless you run it with the "-F" flush option (man page).
>
> That's true, but fetchmail will leave all your messages ON the server
> until you use the -F flag. And then it will download all messages from
> the server, and now you have duplicates in your inbox.
>
> Getmail, on the other hand, can be set up to leave messages on the
> sserver for a specified number of days, say 10 days, and then delete
> any messages on the server older than 10 days. And, it will only
> download messages *it has seen* ONCE. Thank you Charles!!!
>
Is there a way to make fetchmail/getmail communicate with mutt about what
messsages are deleted?
If mutt has locally deleted a message, then fetchmail/getmail knows what is
deleted and accordingly flush the message on the server. Is it possible?
regards
bxuef
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