On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
Matthias Andree <ma(_at_)dt(_dot_)e-technik(_dot_)uni-dortmund(_dot_)de>:
fetchmail for the most part assumes that it were the only client ever
accessing the mailbox, but this isn't true. I check mail from various
sites at various sites and still want all the mail downloaded and still
kept on the server, so anything that assumes "\Seen -> don't retrieve"
is bugged.
In other words, you're trying to use fetchmail as just another user
agent rather than an MTA. Damn, I knew I should have deleted the keep
option.
If fetchmail didn't have the "keep" option, I wouldn't be using it. No
RAID1 at home, no "--flush"...
If getmail wasn't botched with respect to SSL or TLS ("use stunnel" -
which allows MITM attacks), I'd have switched totally.
Sorry for breaking your idea of how fetchmail is actually used.