On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:53:53AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > On the other hand, keep mail on server means every invocation of > fetchmail grabs yet another copy of the mail box, and if you've set it > up to poll every five minutes, you may find you have six thousand > copies of whatever landed in your mailbox that day.
Actually, practically all POP3 servers support listing the content of a mailbox and also providing the UUID of each message, which allows the client to decide which messages to fetch. IIRC, that is. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849754 | | friend -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]