On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:01:05 +1300, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote: > In message <ibbj3j$pv...@localhost.localdomain>, Martin Gregorie wrote: > >> ...and don't forget getmail, a better behaved replacement for >> fetchmail. > > I was just looking this up in the Getmail FAQ, since I didn’t know about > the issues with Fetchmail. > FWIW the thing that really irritated me about fetchmail is the way it only deletes messages at the end of a session and never cleans up after itself. If a session gets timed out or otherwise interrupted the messages that were read in it are left in the server's mail marked 'read'. Subsequent sessions won't re-read them but won't go expunge them either. This leads to a gradual build-up of read but not expunged messages in the server's mailbox.
The only fix I discovered was to go in manually with an MUA just after a fetchmail session so it could read and expunge this junk. getmail doesn't cause this problem. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | Essex, UK org | -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
