On Tue, 2005-02-01 at 08:12, Craig White wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-31 at 15:50 -0800, Richard E Miles wrote: > > On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 14:27:08 -0500 (EST) > > Craig White wrote: > > > Any suggestions? Right now, it is only 1 email but these things have a > > > way of snowballing. > > > > > > TIA > > > > You might want to check if you are getting socket errors in your fetchmail. It > > will cause messages to repeat in your mail. I experienced this from my > > fetchmail. To fix it I changed fetchmailrc to include logging and expunge 1 to > > erase mail from my server. here is a copy of my .fetchmailrc file. > > > > # Configuration created Sun Jul 11 10:36:42 2004 by fetchmailconf > > set postmaster "rmiles" > > set bouncemail > > set no spambounce > > set properties "" > > set daemon 90 > > > > set no syslog > > > > set logfile /home/rmiles/fetchmail.log > > poll mail.comcast.net with proto POP3 > > user 'r.godzilla' there with password 'xxxx' is 'rmiles' here > > > > expunge 1 > ---- > hmmm... > expunge 1 is interesting - I finally resorted to doing 25 at a time. Note that essentially you're telling fethmail to break down the comm process after each mail retrieved. This will be a huge load on your server. But this is handy when the link is flaky, and you can avoid re-downloading the same mail over and over again. > wonder whether 'expunge 1' or 'batchlimit 25' is more efficient. Depends on your link I would say. I normally don't limit it at all. In the office Lan, I just fire away and all 900+ emails gets DL'ed into my laptop -- Ow Mun Heng Gentoo/Linux on DELL D600 1.4Ghz 98% Microsoft(tm) Free!! Neuromancer 18:42:40 up 10:06, 8 users, load average: 0.71, 0.52, 0.83
