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Re: [fetchmail] Deleting after N days (IMAP)

2003-03-23 17:45:50
Thomas Guettler <guettli(_at_)thomas-guettler(_dot_)de>:
When emails get fetched from the server, fetchmails writes time, UID,
server, username, mailbox in one line into a logfile
(e.g. mailcleaner.log). This needs a modification of the source of
fetchmail. This logging should only be done if it is enabled by the
user.

A second programm reads mailcleaner.log and fetchmailrc and deletes
messages which where fetched more than N days ago.

Before doing any coding I want to know what you think about it. It
think the changes to fetchmail will be very small and would not affect
other fetchmail users.

Repeat after me:

Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.
Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.
Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.
Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.
Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.
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Fetchmail is a transport layer, not an interactive client.

In other words, *no*.  I will not accept such patches.  They would
inevitably followed by more patches for content-based filtering and
all kinds of other crap.  That is not what fetchmail is for.
-- 
                <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/";>Eric S. Raymond</a>