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

[Rob MacGregor]

On 25/01/06, Robert Williams <bob@bob.usuhs.mil> wrote:
> It appears to me that fetchmail is not
> interacting with comcast's pop service
> as expected.   The usual list pop clients
> work fine to delete read messages from the server,
> but fetchmail-6.2.5.5-1.fc4 fails to do this.

As detailed in the FAQ, there are known problems with comcast:

http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#I8

I'd generally suggest the use of UIDL support with POP anyway to allow
client side tracking of seen messages.

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