[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