[Nottingham] .fetchmailrc difficulties

[David Clarke]

You need to use the UIDL option.

With this added (after the pop3 option) fetchmail keeps a local list of mail
messages that it has seen, and knows not to download them repeatedly.

David Clarke.

----- Original Message -----
From: "James Gibbon" <james.gibbon@virgin.net>
To: <nottingham@mailman.lug.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 7:09 PM
Subject: [Nottingham] .fetchmailrc difficulties


>
> Hi folks,
>
> I'm trying to instate a second fetchmail setup on my laptop,
> differing from my main setup only in that it will not delete mail
> from the (POP3) server.  However, each time I run fetchmail from my
> laptop I only want to pull down _unseen_ mail.  This is so that I
> can maintain a complete archive of mail I want to see on my desktop
> machine without transferring mail from my laptop.
>
> A look through the fetchmail man page suggests that this is quite
> possible:
>
>    (Keyword:  fetchall)  Retrieve  both old
>    (seen) and new messages from the
>    mailserver.  The default is to fetch only
>    messages  the   server has not marked seen.
>
> also:
>
>    (Keyword:  keep)  Keep  retrieved messages
>    on the remote  mailserver.  Normally,
>    messages are deleted from the folder on the
>    mailserver after they have been retrieved.
>    Specifying  the keep option  causes retrieved
>    messages to remain in your folder on the
>    mailserver.
>
>
> Now, here's my laptop .fetchmailrc, with password suitably disguised
> to protect the innocent:
>
> set logfile="~/Mail/fetchmail.log"
> defaults:
> poll mail.virgin.net protocol pop3 username "james.gibbon" password
"XxXXx"
>         mda /usr/bin/procmail
>         keep
>
> .. as you can see, I don't have 'fetchall' set - so by default,
> according to TFM I should be pulling down only unseen mail each
> time I run fetchmail (with no command line args BTW).
>
> However, in practice, while my laptop IS leaving mail on the server
> for my desktop to pick up later, it is also pulling down down ALL
> messages on the server each time, not just unseen messages - so that
> to download new messages I have to download an increasing number of
> old messages each time as well.
>
> What am I doing wrong, anyone?
>
> TIA
> James
>
>
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