Re: [fetchmail-users] 2 Fetchmail Questions

[Sebastian T. <se...@sm...>]

Quoth Andrew <and...@gm...>:
> I don't understand 'flushing'? I have set fetchmail to _not_ keep
> messages which activates this message but the messages remain on the
> gmail server. I suspect that this is a noob question :-)

Gmail is a little odd in this regard.  There is simply no way to
remove mail from Gmail servers via POP3 but you _can_ choose to have
your messages 'archived' once they have been downloaded via POP3.  For
this to happen the message must not be 'kept' on the server by
fetchmail, i.e., don't put 'keep' in your poll stanza.  If you do,
Gmail doesn't consider them downloaded and doesn't archive them, i.e.,
they remain in your Inbox.

HTH,

Sebastian