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

[Lee H. <mat...@gm...>]

On 9/10/07, Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> wrote:
> Keep it on the list please.
>
> On 9/10/07, Lee Hinman <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> >
> > It looks like the Message-IDs are the same for both emails
>
> I'd tend to agree.
>
> > Every time
> > I run "fetchmail -a" again, it downloads all of the messages again
> > (over 300 unfortunately).
>
> You may want to read the man page and see what the "-a" option means:
>
> | Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages
> | from the mailserver
>
> Which may just explain the "problem" you're having ;)
>
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> Rob MacGregor
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Sorry, accidently hit reply instead of replying to the list.

I see that the -a option is why it is downloading all the old
messages, however, if I get an email on a different machine (a Windows
machine) and I read it, fetchmail doesn't download it for some reason.
It only downloads the "unseen" messages. What I would like is to
download any message that *this* computer hasn't seen, even the ones
I've already read on my Windows machines.

Is there a way to accomplish this?

Thank you very much for the help, very appreciated!

- Lee