[fetchmail-users] Can fetchmail leave email on the POP3 srever for (say) 10 days?

[Richard <rch...@aa...>]

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Hi

I have Centos 4.4 all up to date. Being a recently reformed Windows Sys
Admin - I tend to manage centos mostly with Webmin - though I also use the
Gnome interface through nx. I try to avoid the command line stuff where
possible.

The Webmin interface for configuring fetchmial allows me to specify whether
or not to leave the email items on the POP3 server after downloading them.
As far as I can see there is no way to specify to leave them there for (say)
10 days then delete them. Most POP clients support this behaviour. (Outlook
& Outlook express certainly do)

Can anyone tell me whether this can be done - and if so - is it a limitation
of the webmin interface which prevents me from specifying this? I think
Webmin allows me to run a command before and/or after downloading emails.
Perhaps I can achieve what I want this way? If I revert to editing a conf
file - will that interfere with webmin's control of the conf file?

I would like to do this so that there is a copy of new emails somewhere if
the Centos machine hard disk dies.


Thanks

Richard.