On Monday 24 December 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote: >On 24/12/2007, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> On Monday 24 December 2007, John Kodis wrote: >> >Hi Gene, >> > >> >While I'm not Joanne, my first question would be "Have you tried >> >'fetchmail --all'?" >> >> Humm, good Q. Its launched at boot time by this line in rc.local: >> su gene -c "fetchmail -d 90 --fetchmailrc /home/gene/.fetchmailrc" >> .fetchmailrc looks benign wrt that option. It normally just sucks what is >> there and unread. It will all be unread cuz I don't use the webmail >> interface. > >If you poll via POP3, downloaded messages are marked as read until >they flushed (=deleted) unless you tell fetchmail to --keep them. In >case of an error, they are not flushed, but still marked as read. You >need fetchmail --all then. > >If you know there are thousands of messages on the server and >fetchmail is interrupted frequently, set the --fetchlimit parameter to >the max.number of messages to download in one run. You folks are better than the manpages! You write in english. :) Thanks. And you and yours have a very Merry Christmas. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) We're living in a golden age. All you need is gold. -- D.W. Robertson.
