On 5/12/06, Balaji Krishnamoorthy <ba...@ti...> wrote:
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> I have fetchmail setup running to pull messages from the IMAP server
> using procmail as the mda. I use mozilla as the mail client and use
> procmail+fetchmail to run some scripts. I wish fetchmail should not mark
> the messages as "read" after downloading them as my mozilla email client
> doesn't recognize the new messages as unread.
>
> Is there a option to specify in .fetchmailrc to mark the messages
> "unread" in the server as I can view them as usual in the mozilla.
In short, no. Fetchmail was written with the assumption that it would
be the only program accessing a mailbox.
You *might* find that if your ISP uses POP3 that you can use that
interface (ensuring you configure fetchmail with the "keep" and "uidl"
options) to achieve what you want.
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