Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail does not mark messages "seen" on remote server running qmail

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 7/15/06, mario kammerer <ma...@ot...> wrote:
>
>  hello dear member!
>
>  i'm running on my server (DMZ) qmail. the mails are received by ISP (qmail
> too) from where i fetch them with fetchmail

QMail is for SMTP.  The POP/IMAP server will be something different.

>  into local qmail. the mails should stay on remote ISPs and only NEW mails
> should be fetched.
<---SNIP--->
>  what DOES NOT WORK is to mark the fetched messages "seen"

Well, that's actually down to the POP server, not fetchmail.  If you
want fetchmail to track what messages it's seen you need to use UIDL.
From the man page on the UIDL option:

Force POP3 to use client-side UIDLs (recommended)

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