[fetchmail]fetchmail only skipping seen messages when there are no unseen ones on imap

[Rob MacGregor]

On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:24:55 +0100, Christian Uebber
<briefkasten@uebber.de> wrote:
>  Hello, 
>  
>  fetchmail does not skip seen messages on my imap server: 
<---SNIP--->  
>  set daemon 30 
>  set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log 
>  poll imap.1und1.de protocol imap 
>         username "abcdefg" 
>         password "hijklmn" 
>         no rewrite 
>         keep 
>         mda /usr/bin/procmail; 

The problem is simple - you've specified keep (ie don't mark as
downloaded) without enabling UIDL support (see the man page).  That
way, fetchmail doesn't know what it's seen and what it hasn't.

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