Re: [fetchmail-users] Marking messages 'unread' in fetchmail

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

"Balaji Krishnamoorthy" <ba...@ti...> writes:

>  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.

Unfortunately not yet, because fetchmail cannot use IMAP's UID feature
yet (it knows POP3's UIDL however).

So if you can pull with POP3, that might be a workaround.

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Matthias Andree