Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Okay, I guess I mis-understood. Thanks for
clarifiing.
I thought he wanted to only retrieve unread
messages from his pop server. So deleting the
messages as you retrieve them would only leave the
new messages on the server. Hmmm.
I didn't realize he wanted to leave them there.
Hadn't ever thought of doing that. It's an
interesting thought.
How much can you leave on the server before your ISP
complains? Will your ISP purge the mail box
periodically?
kelly
Kelly Scroggins proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> ching wang proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> >I am new to mutt, and just started to use it to retrieve mail from a
> >pop3 account on my ISP. I have trouble figuring out a way to avoid
> >downloading the same messages whenever I hit shift-g. I don't have this
> >problem when using netscape mail: it will not download messages already
> >in my local mailbox.
>Or use this setting in your .muttrc :
> set pop_delete
>This will delete the messages on your pop server
>as you retrieve them.
That's not what this guy wants - he wants to download only unread mail. I
don't think he wants to expunge mails from his pop mailbox after
downloading them.
Something like this.
> defaults
> forcecr
> poll your.pop.server.com with proto pop3
> user foo with password *****
> keep
If he wanted to expunge mails from his pop server he'd have to use
"fetchall" instead of "keep" in his .fetchmailrc.
hth
-suresh
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