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Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 22:18:29 +0000
From: Nuno Teixeira <nunotex@...quorum.com>
To: popa3d-users@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: keep messages on server doesn't work?
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:33:35PM +0100, Jakob Hirsch wrote:
> Nuno Teixeira wrote:
>
> > I use fetchmail to this tests with keep option and when it
> > fetches mail it says "not flushed" but every time that I restart
> > fetchmail, it fetch all the mail again. I assume that it is
>
> That's a fetchmail thing and has very little to do with popa3d.
> fetchmail uses by default the deprecated LAST command, which is not
> supported by popa3d. To make fetchmail only get new mail, add the UIDL
> option to your fetchmailrc.
>
" Under POP3, blame RFC1725. That version of the POP3 protocol specifi-
cation removed the LAST command, and some POP servers follow it (you
can verify this by invoking fetchmail -v to the mailserver and watching
the response to LAST early in the query). The fetchmail code tries to
compensate by using POP3's UID feature, storing the identifiers of mes-
sages seen in each session until the next session, in the .fetchids
file. But this doesn't track messages seen with other clients, or read
directly with a mailer on the host but not deleted afterward. A better
solution would be to switch to IMAP. "
What shoul I do:
- Use UIDL
- Switch to IMAP (please no!)
Thanks,
Nuno Teixeira
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