fetchmail-users

[fetchmail-users] uidl doesnt work in multiple account

[Nelson S. <nts...@gm...>]

I'm trying to use fetchmail in downloading my hosted email to another 2
email account on my local machine. I want to copy the hosted emails to my 2
local account. Here is the content of my .fetchmailrc

poll mail.foo.com protocol pop3 uidl:
  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts2" here options keep;
  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts" here options keep;

Then I run the command fetchmail -v -U -k -S localhost/587.

However, I notice that on the nelsonts account keeps on downloading the old
emails. It seems that uidl only working on the nelsonts2 account. Would it
be possible to apply also the uidl to the next account. Is this the real
behavior of fetchmail?

Thanks,


Nelson

Re: [fetchmail-users] uidl doesnt work in multiple account

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 03:01, Nelson Serafica <nts...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm trying to use fetchmail in downloading my hosted email to another 2
> email account on my local machine. I want to copy the hosted emails to my 2
> local account. Here is the content of my .fetchmailrc
>
> poll mail.foo.com protocol pop3 uidl:
>  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts2" here options keep;
>  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts" here options keep;
>
> Then I run the command fetchmail -v -U -k -S localhost/587.
>
> However, I notice that on the nelsonts account keeps on downloading the old
> emails. It seems that uidl only working on the nelsonts2 account. Would it
> be possible to apply also the uidl to the next account. Is this the real
> behavior of fetchmail?

If you're wanting to download the email and send it to 2 different
recipients it would be better to use an alias on your local SMTP
server.

Otherwise, please see section G3 of the FAQ
(http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3).

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Re: [fetchmail-users] uidl doesnt work in multiple account

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 06.09.2011 04:01, schrieb Nelson Serafica:
> I'm trying to use fetchmail in downloading my hosted email to another 2
> email account on my local machine. I want to copy the hosted emails to my 2
> local account. Here is the content of my .fetchmailrc
> 
> poll mail.foo.com protocol pop3 uidl:
>   user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts2" here options keep;
>   user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts" here options keep;
> 
> Then I run the command fetchmail -v -U -k -S localhost/587.
> 
> However, I notice that on the nelsonts account keeps on downloading the old
> emails. 

Fetchmail assumes that the user@server name is unique, but neither
validates nor enforces that.  Your configuration violates that
assumption and malfunctions in the observed way.

I suppose that when reading back messages, all UIDs read from both user
lines are actually stored for the first ne...@ma... poll.

I won't add a relevant check to fetchmail 6.X though, and probably not
to 7.X either. I might do something about this in 8.X, but that's a long
way from now.

> Is this the real behavior of fetchmail?

Looks like it.

For a different approach to what you might by trying to achieve, see
Rob's response.