On Thursday 14 September 2017 11:23:10 David Wright wrote: > On Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 10:59:01 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote: > > On Thursday 14 September 2017 10:40:48 Frank wrote: > > > Op 14-09-17 om 14:15 schreef to...@tuxteam.de: > > > > I know, with pop3 you can theoretically leave your mail at the > > ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑ > > > > > server, but... the protocol makes it very difficult to see that > > > > you don't download mails twice, or many times. > > > > > > Not in my experience. What makes you think it's difficult? > > > > I don't either, fetchmail has zero problems ignoring messages > > previously seen and pulled, been doing it for years. The options in > > your .fetchmailrc are > > 'fetchall' and > > 'no keep' > > How does 'no keep' match up with > > > > > "leave your mail at the server"?
In my instant case, its irrevelent because they have fixed dovecot to ignore the "dele' that the no keep tells fetchmail to send. > > Cheers, > David. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
