"Hierodeacon Peter" <DSFrPeter(_at_)starband(_dot_)net> writes:
The fetchmail FAQ states the following:
G5. I want to make fetchmail behave like Outlook Express.
The second-most-requested feature for fetchmail, after content-based
filtering, is the ability to have it remove messages from a maildrop after N
days, typically to be used with the keep option as a sort of poor man's
newsgroup facility. Microsoft's Outlook Express supports this.
This feature won't be added either. Repeat after me: fetchmail's job is
transport, not policy. If you want this, write a Perl or Python script, to
be run from a cron job, that deletes old messages off your maildrop. Send it
to me and I'll put it in the contrib directory.
Does anyone know of a script that is available that will do this? I have
searched all over, and have not been able to locate one.
One such script is Charles Cazabon's getmail (in Python)
<URL:http://www.qcc.ca/~charlesc/software/getmail-2.0/>, which also does
the "transport" part, but without TLS, SSL or IMAP support, it just
speaks plain POP3, possibly with APOP, and has the delete_after feature
you're asking for. It doesn't go without fetching first, though. For
SSL, you could resort to stunnel though.
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Matthias Andree