I gave up and did it in ten lines of 'expect' script instead.
Cheers!
Brian
On 11/21/2001 2:04 PM, Brian S. Craigie wrote:
Subject:
Re: [fetchmail]How to delete unwanted emails using fetchmail
From:
"Brian S. Craigie" <brianc(_at_)suk(_dot_)neceur(_dot_)com>
Date:
Wed, 21 Nov 2001 22:07:09 GMT
To:
Ivan Lopez <ilopez(_at_)cilsa(_dot_)org(_dot_)ar>
CC:
fetchmail-friends(_at_)lists(_dot_)ccil(_dot_)org
On 11/20/2001 8:45 PM, Ivan Lopez wrote:
I thought about polling only the problem user, then specifying a
script for the MDA which returns an error code which would bounce
the email, but that still means I'm going to have bounces getting
sent out, so that option seems to be inapplicable for me.
If you can fetch mail only for this user, you can to use:
poll your.remote.mail.server:
user ........
bsmtp /dev/null
Is this what you looking for?
Ah, I thought yes, but on second thoughts, won't that download the
mail before it dumps it to /dev/null? I want to delete the mail from
the server instead of downloading it (to reduce the time the dialup
line is active). I see from the docs that it is possible to execute
preexec and postexec commands, so maybe one of those could be a
'delete all' command if such exists, but I couldn't see one in the
pop3 rfc.
Regards
IVAN
(Santa Fe - Argentina)
Thanks again.
Brian
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