Re: [fetchmail-devel] Wish: fetchids via database

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

Christian Michallek <chr...@da...> writes:

> hi fetchmail team,
>
> i have a little wish for fetchmail, perhaps theres someday time to
> implement this:
> it would be very nice to have the fetchids inside a database like mysql
> instead a text file.

Yes indeed, but it will not be mysql -- too much complexity for too
little database. Probably SQLite or QDBM or something like that.

> perhaps the configuration too, but having the fetchids inside mysql
> would help me alot, because im syncing some big popboxes with
> fetchmail, and searching through the textfile is kinda slow sometimes.

As is downloading huge UIDL lists every $daemon seconds.

> and one time i had the problem that my disk was full, so fetchmail
> exited with an empty fetchids file,
> resulting in redownloading a huge amount of mail ;)

Certainly not a pleasure to experience. Well, you can update to 6.3.X,
which will at least keep the old idfile in place, so it'll download just
the new messages over and over but not all your messages, to limit
damage somewhat.

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Matthias Andree