Re: [fetchmail-devel] populate .fetchids

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

Am Donnerstag, den 15.11.2007, 22:19 +0100 schrieb Daniel Goering:
> Hi!
> 
> As I didn't find any hints on how to do this, I guess I have a feature
> request:
> 
> For people starting to use fetchmail -- like me -- it would be nice, if
> one could create the ~/.fetchids file from the mails currently on the
> server, without actually downloading all the mails.
> Otherwise you might end up redownloading thousands of messages just
> because you changed your retrival programm.

Hi Daniel,

indeed this is not in fetchmail yet, I've placed it in TODO.txt.

For the nonce, you can try to convert the UIDs from your previous
program, the .fetchids format is line-oriented (i. e. one line per UID)

login@server ID

and all different logins and servers mixed in the same .fetchids file.
Fetchmail does not expect a certain order, and there's a space (ASCII
code 0x20 hex/040 octal/32 decimal) between server and ID.

This is going to change in a later version, but not in 6.3.X.

HTH

Best regards
Matthias