On Friday, October 10, 2003, at 07:19 AM, 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.
Please don't. I use --keep to leave the mail on the server until a
known good local backup exists, then purge the seen/fetched mail
separately.
Jim