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

Matthias Andree matthias.andree@gmx.de
Sun, 06 Mar 2005 00:00:59 +0100


Christian Uebber <briefkasten@uebber.de> writes:

> Excerpt from the fetchmail man page:
>
> "The  UIDL code is generally flaky and tends to lose its state on errors 
> and line drops (so that old messages are re-seen).  If this happens  to 
> you, switch to IMAP4."

No good. The IMAP4 code assumes that fetchmail is the only
client and/or the user doesn't want to fetch mail he's already read.
Pretty bold assertions for IMAP...

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Matthias Andree