[fetchmail-users] Re: "Seen" status disappears everytime

[Ratan N. <nal...@ya...>]

Hi all:

I am still struggling a bit with the configuration. As
suggested, I am going to describe what I am trying to achieve
and then explain what I have done so far.

- I want to download mail from the mailserver to my laptop,
  leaving an empty mailbox on the server.

- The mailserver currently has IMAP and POP3 ports open,
  though POP3 may be closed in the future. There is no server
  on the POP3S port as we speak though.

- Ideally, I don't want to enter the password to fetchmail,
  but have it use my ssh-agent if available and fail if not.

- I sometimes read the mail directly on the mail server
  using squirrelmail and elm. In these cases, the messages
  are being marked as Read on the server ("Status: RO").
However,
  when I get them using fetchmail on IMAP protocol, the Status
  line disappears in the fetched e-mail.

- When I fetch the same mail using fetchmail on POP3 protocol,
  the "Status" fields are retained but it leads to a different
  problem: insufficient integration with ssh/ssh-agent.

I tried the following configuration with IMAP protocol with the
result that all fetched mails were appearing as brand new:


=== IMAP config ===
set postmaster "ratan"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""
defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"

poll bitter
    plugin "env -u DISPLAY /home/ratan/bin/%h exec
/usr/local/bin/imapd" auth ssh;
    user 'ratan' there is 'ratan' here
    expunge 10
    options fetchall
    mda "cat >> /home/ratan/TEST"

=================

I tried the following configuration with POP3 at the suggestion
of Matthias. This almost worked except that it is not using SSH.

=== pop3, attempt#1 ===
poll bitter with pop3
   uidl
   options fetchall

=========

After some research, I tried the following to force it to use
ssh; but the results were still not good: this configuration
still asks for password; if I enter a bad password, the
authentication fails: i.e., apparently, unlike imap server, the
pop3 server has no preauthorized state.

==== pop3, attempt#2 ===
poll bitter with pop3 via localhost port 8005
   uidl
   preconnect "ssh -n -2 -a -C -f ratan@bitter -L
8005:bitter:110 sleep 5"

======

Any suggestions on how I can get the mail while retaining the
"Seen" flags exclusively using the ssh-agent for connection
would be great.

BTW, I tried fetchmail version 6.3.4 and 6.2.5.2 both with the
same results.

Thanks!
Ratan

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