[fetchmail-users] Re: RETR with UIDL

[Sunil S. <sh...@bo...>]

Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Sat, Mar 04, 2006:
> 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.

The only practical use of this patch is if a user with this
configuration:

    set daemon 300
    poll server
	uidl
	no fetchall
	keep

runs:

    fetchmail -a -d 0 ; fetchmail

to download all mails once and then start normal polling. New mails
which have been downloaded by the first instance of fetchmail will not
be downloaded again by the second instance due to this patch.

Of course, an equivalent effect may be achieved by removing all the
relevant entries from the fetchids file or deleting the fetchids file.

This patch has no relevance to our basic topic under discussion.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.