[fetchmail-users] Fwd: 2 Fetchmail Questions

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

For everybody's info.

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From: Andrew <and...@gm...>
Date: Jun 21, 2007 10:15 AM
Subject: Re: [fetchmail-users] 2 Fetchmail Questions
To: Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...>


On 6/21/07, Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> On 6/21/07, Andrew <and...@gm...> wrote:
[....]
>
> > 3. 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's POP3 access works a little oddly that way - you configure your
> choice in GMail and that overrides any settings you make to your POP3
> client.  You've probably got yours at the default still.  Try changing
> it to either archive or delete.

 Yes it was exactly as you described. I can only apologise for missing
such an obvious setting! All working perfectly now.

              Thanks,

                   Andrew


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