Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail continuously fetching already fetched imap email

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

On 9/10/07, Lee Hinman <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> Hi fetchmail-users,
> I'm having some trouble getting fetchmail not to keep fetching the
> same IMAP messages over and over and over again. Here is what I have
> in my .fetchmailrc:
>
> poll corpusmx10c.corp.emc.com
> with proto IMAP
> user '**********'
> there with password '**********'
> is '*********' here
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
> options keep
>
> Is there an option that I am setting incorrectly that makes it ignore
> the messages that have already been downloaded? Is "keep" the right
> option? (I don't want it to delete the messages, because I'd like to
> read the messages from a different computer also).

Version of fetchmail?

Transcript as specified in the FAQ
(http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3 - "fetchmail
--nosyslog --nodetach -vvv", along with your usual command line
options).

Also very useful would be the output from adding "--configdump" to
your usual command line options.

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