[fetchmail]--nokeep --flush not working on mail.comcast.com

[Ed Wilts]

On Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 03:22:32PM -0500, Robert Williams wrote:
> One of the local imap mail accounts
> on a server that I manage
> has been popping mail from mail.comcast.com
> with a fetchmail crontab entry,
> and over the past week we have seen a huge
> number of duplicate messages.

> The users inbox as 800Mb last Monday.
> The crontab entry is
> 50 1 * * *      fetchmail --flush --nokeep -s -d 900

I don't know about the duplicates, but I've found that using fetchall is
a good option for comcast's mail server.  One of the main reasons for
fetchall (until the very latest fetchmail release) is that comcast will
silently truncate attachments if you don't specify it.

In my .fetchmailrc, I use:
set postmaster "ewilts"
set bouncemail
set properties ""
poll mail.comcast.net
        proto POP3
        user 'hidden'
        password 'hidden'
        fetchall

and it works like a charm.  I don't specify any command line arguments
to fetchmail. 

        .../Ed

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Ed Wilts, Mounds View, MN, USA
mailto:ewilts@ewilts.org