On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 23:16, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Ow Mun Heng writes: > > > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > >> Jeff Vian writes: > >> > >> > 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. > >> > >> No it won't. > > > > Yes it will > > > > [snip from man fetchmail] > > -e <count> | --expunge <count> > > Fetchmail is not a specification of the IMAP or the POP3 protocol. And your point being to the comment by Jeff Ivian is...? All I'm saying is, fetchmail performs the pop3/imap session. Whether or not it follows the RFC, I have no idea. But if the link is unreliable, you can instruct fetchmail to destroy/close the session after X messages, and expunge those X messages before restarting. -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on D600 1.4Ghz CPU kernel 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 Neuromancer 00:19:54 up 14:29, 4 users, load average: 0.35, 0.72, 0.67
