Re: [fetchmail-users] only one message gets fetched using IMAP idle

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

Lars Tewes schrieb am 2006-05-15:

> But if I try to not to expunge the messages on the server after the 
> transfer (using "keep" configuration option), fetchmail immediately 
> terminates after fetching the first message. Don't know if this is intended 
> behaviour?

Time to summon Sunil who knows a bit more about the idle code...

Well, --keep and --idle don't appear to be friends, but it doesn't
appear to be intentional either, at least it's not documented; and the
interfaces and assumptions in fetchmail aren't documented well, so I
need to figure out which function expects what input and is expected to
give what output...

I need to think about this a bit and understand the IMAP message
counting stuff a bit better -- and decide if I really want to fix this
in 6.3.X or only in 6.4.X where I plan to add UID support for IMAP.

I have committed this stopgap code to SVN however, but I'm not promising
I can easily fix --keep --idle with reasonable effort.

HTH,

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Matthias Andree