Re: [fetchmail-users] Can fetchmail be configured to do this?

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

rouble schrieb:

> Now, I want to also maintain a running backup of all the email. That
> is, I want to download _one_ copy of each email (from both folders)
> from the server.
> 
> Since I view this email with other imap clients, I can not depend on
> the read/unread (seen/unseen) status of the mail that is used by imap.
> Using fetchmail with imap does not fetch messages that have already
> been seen. So this won't work for a backup.

Indeed not.

You're unfortunately out of luck with any fetchmail version released to
date, because:

(1) - POP3 has no notion of folders, it's "single mailbox".

If MS Exchange has some folder extension for POP3, point me to the
programmer's documentation (which must be openly and freely available, i.
e. free of charge and limitations and it must be suitable to develop Open
Source Software under any license I choose, particularly GPL v2) and I can
  estimate how much time it will take to implement it.

If I choose to do that, I will need temporary access (POP3 and sending
messages there) to such a server in order to test and debug.

(2) - fetchmail's IMAP code has no client-side "seen" tracking feature YET
- that's a missing feature in fetchmail I plan to correct for a later
version (that's not going to be called 6.3.something), but I presume it's
going to become winter before I get to it.

So if you need a solution now, you will have to find a client that supports
UID "seen" tracking for IMAP. Sorry!

Best regards
Matthias