On Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:06:12 -0500 (EST) fedora-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx 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. Thanks Jeff for the information. I have added expunge 50 to my .fetchmailrc file. -- Richard E Miles Federal Way WA. registered linux user 46097
