andrew(_dot_)large(_at_)openwave(_dot_)com was alleged to have written to Sean
Rima
an> fetchmail 5.7.4 on RH Linux 7.1
an> I'm doing a pop3 fetch with "uidl" and "keep" (I dual-pop to my
an> Linux box and Outlook on my laptop. I have a "delete after 3 days"
an> rule in Outlook).
an> I've noticed that ~/.fetchids doesn't get updated until the entire
an> pop is complete. Is there any reason why in my particular
an> situation? The problem is that I sometimes have a big stack of
an> messages to pop and also have a relatively flaky ISDN connection.
an> If I get 95% of the messages downloaded but lose the link, I also
an> lose track of the fact that I successfully downloaded the 95% of the
an> messages that I did (so a later run of fetchmail will result in
an> duplicate downloads).
From what I know and use, if you set the idfile and use uidl, then if the
session finishes before you downloaded all the mail, fetchmail will write
the list of fetched uidls to the idfile. Next time around, (and I have seen
this several times) fetchmail will ignore the "seen" messages and download
only the new ones.
Sean
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