Re: [fetchmail-users] 2 Fetchmail Questions

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

Sebastian Tennant schrieb:
> 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.

Could we use this, perhaps with slight modifications (more precisely, the
"delete" setting in GMail that Rob suggested), for the fetchmail FAQ?

I'm not a Google mail user, so I haven't seen any of this myself, and don't
feel comfortable with editing such a section.

Thanks.

Best regards
Matthias