Commercial or Famous Applicattions.?

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Wed Nov 10 08:59:02 EST 2010


On Wed, 10 Nov 2010 13:07:58 +0000, Martin Gregorie wrote:

> FWIW the thing that really irritated me about fetchmail is the way it 
> only deletes messages at the end of a session and never cleans up after 
> itself. If a session gets timed out or otherwise interrupted the messages 
> that were read in it are left in the server's mail marked 'read'. 
> Subsequent sessions won't re-read them but won't go expunge them either. 
> This leads to a gradual build-up of read but not expunged messages in the 
> server's mailbox. 

The --flush option will delete any "seen" messages before retrieving new
messages. The --fetchall option will retrieve both seen and unseen
messages.





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