Justin Guyett <jfg(_at_)sonicity(_dot_)com>:
along the same lines, everything would break if another client was
simultaneously reading and deleting messages from a mailbox fetchmail was
trying to read from, right?
Mailservers are supposed to maintain a lock to prevent this; it's in
both the POP3 and IMAP protocol specs. I don't think I'd care to bet
money on Microsoft doing it competently, though.
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