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

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

mario kammerer <ma...@ot...> writes:

> 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
> into local qmail. the mails should stay on remote ISPs and only NEW mails
> should be fetched.
>
> everything works perfekt - even to input them into qmail-scanner-queue.
>
> what DOES NOT WORK is to mark the fetched messages "seen"

POP3 has no idea of "seen" messages and no method to mark fetched
messages seen. Many POP3 servers can however report unique identifiers
through which the client (here: fetchmail) can identify seen messages
and avoid fetching them again. To that extent...

> every run fetchmail fetches EVERY mail from remote ISP....

...add the "uidl" keyword to your fetchmailrc BEFORE the "user" keyword.

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Matthias Andree