Re: [fetchmail-users] [PATCH] Re: RETR with UIDL

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

Sunil Shetye <sh...@bo...> writes:

> Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Fri, Mar 03, 2006:
>> > The advice being given to force fetchmail to avoid using "TOP" with
>> > these buggy servers is to enable the "fetchall" option. The FAQ is
>> > littered with this advice for various servers with variety of
>> > problems. The problems with "fetchall" option are:
>> >
>> > - "fetchall" cannot be used with "uidl"
>> 
>> Well, we can fix eventual incompatibilities between these two options
>> any time. 6.3.X is open for bug fixes.
>
> Here is a patch for this.

Hm - how will this avoid redownloads of messages when the line is faulty
and the connection is torn down?

It will recognize it's downloading seen messages, but download them all
the same.

-- 
Matthias Andree