solid(_at_)bigblacksun(_dot_)com writes:
I have pop access to yahoo (yeah, I paid), and fetchmail logs in
fine.
The problem is that fetchmail thinks all messages have been
read, even when new messages are waiting.
I'm running Fetchmail 5.9 on RH 7.3.
my .fetchmailrc looks like this:
poll pop.mail.yahoo.com proto pop3 user "user" with pass
"pass" is "localuser" keep
I want to keep the messages on the server since I check the mail
from the web client at work, and I plan to forward to my blackberry
(once I get fetchmail to grab new mail!).
fetchnews will by default use the "last" command to figure what article
has been read last. web mailer access confuses the "last" output.
So: Mixing POP3 access and web client access will require you to use the
UIDL option (if supported) on most sites.
(You can instead use the "all" option, but if you do this, then you will
have to remove the "keep" option to prevent getting mail more than
once.)
If you want to use UIDL, update fetchmail to 5.9.13 or whatever is
current; 5.9.0 "loses" mail after local temporary errors (disk full, DNS
failure). loses == marks it as fetched although it was not delivered.
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Matthias Andree