[fetchmail]Re: Leave POP3 server flags alone for webmail niceness

[Sunil Shetye]

Quoting from Paul Stranos's mail on Mon, Mar 20, 2006:
> This is Fetchmail 6.2.5 against a GMX.de StreamProxy POP3 server.
> 
> After running fetchmail, all the messages in my inbox (viewed via GMX 
> webmail) are marked read.  I notice fetchmail is using RETR, but I think 
> the docs imply it should use TOP (unless, perhaps, it's using KEEP to leave 
> messages on the server?).
> 
> My goal: have fetchmail leave all mail on the server _and_ leave the server 
> flags alone (so the webmail interface doesn't think I've read messages just 
> because I've POP'd them, for example).
> 
> Any advice?  Can I force fetchmail to use TOP?  Will that help? (-:

What is your webmail interface using? IMAP or POP3? Does it have
support for mail UIDs?

Use an interface which uses POP3 with UIDL support. Then, this issue
of TOP or RETR will not affect you.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.