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Re: getmail not deleting messages after they've been downloaded.

2011-01-24 10:35:38
Thanks for the reply Tom. I tried your idea but getmail is still not
deleting the new messages.  If anyone has any ideas I would really
appreciate it as I am at a dead end.

Thanks,

Richard

2011/1/22 <mueller6724(_at_)bellsouth(_dot_)net>

Not really, but problems like this often point to an issue with the mail
server.

If getmail writes detailed logs (or can with the right flag) then take a
look at them. I suspect what is happening is getmail is telling your
server to delete the messages and your server is not doing it.

This happened to me once recently from the AT&T-Yahoo server, and it
happened on a big 148 MB ( where 1 MB means 10 ** 6 bytes) download that
took 5 1/2 hours on 6 Mbps DSL connection: should have been much faster but
AT&T-Yahoo server tends to be slow.

Subsequently I went into the webmail, set the highest possible number of
messages to a page, 200, and deleted 200 at a time without looking them
over, since they were already downloaded.  Subsequent getmail downloads did
delete the messages from the server.  So it must have been a temporary
server glitch, and at the worst time.

Tom

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