On Sat, 2004-11-20 at 13:19 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote: > This is a follow up on trying to diagnose why I am getting duplicate mail > messages. I have turned on verbose in fetchmail call to see if I could see > something amiss in fetchmail with my mail server. Yesterday when I envoked > fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I did not experience any duplicate mail > messages. I perused the log file and everyting looked good. Today when I > envoked fetchmail via fetchmail -K --verbose I am experiencing duplicate mail > messages again. I looked at the log file and everything seemed to be normal, > however after receiving 70 messages it slept for a while. Then it started to > receive messages again starting with message 1, then 2, etc. Here is an > excerpt from the log: > Try telling fetchmail to terminate the session after X number of messages. Then when it starts the next session those already received will be gone. IMAP and POP3 do not actually do a delete on the server when a session is still in progress. Having fetchmail terminate the session and start a new one will trigger the delete on the server for those messages you already have seen.
