[fetchmail-users] fetchmail deletes imap messages

[longbow <lo...@gm...>]

hi all!

i think i have a problem with my fetchmail (config). i use it to get all
the email from my various accounts. in the .fetchmailrc in my home dir i
put something like this:

poll MAILSERVER   protocol IMAP   user "MAILBOXUSERNAME" password
"THESECRET" is LOCALUSER  keep

this runs perfect expect that the fetchmail daemon is deleting the
messages in the remote server's inbox. i read in the manual that
deleteing is the default action and adding "keep" should keep the
messages on the remote side. i tried it and fetchmail recognizes that
the config has changed by diplaying this:

fetchmail: restarting fetchmail (/home/USER/.fetchmailrc changed)
Both fetchall and keep on in daemon mode is a mistake!
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.4 daemon

and it still gets the messages and deletes them from remote server. i
wonder about this behavoiur of fetchmail cause if i use IMAP than i want
the messages to stay on the server, not getting them deleted! why cant i
use daemon mode and the keep option?

is there a possibility to fix this??

thx in advance

snIP3r