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Re: [fetchmail] [PATCH] bug fixes for 6.2.3

2003-07-29 04:24:05
Sunil Shetye <shetye(_at_)bombay(_dot_)retortsoft(_dot_)com> wrote:

The attached patch fixes the following problems:
[...]
oversize messages are inadvertently deleted when both --limit and
--flush are used.

I don't consider this a bug. We discussed this some months ago when
I asked how to delete oversized mail. I use the following to have a
"byte sink" account on a POP3 server where fetchmail deletes all
incoming mail without retrieving it:

  user "trashcan" pass "secret" limit 1 flush

I use this i.e. to have replies to announcements etc., which point
back to the bytesink address, silently dropped. This kind of account
can also be used for some spammers.

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