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

[Matthew L. H. <mat...@gm...>]

* Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> [2007-09-10 22:51:28 +0200]:

>Lee Hinman schrieb am 2007-09-10:
>
>> 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.
>
>That reason is unfortunately a design flaw, in that the former
>maintainer believed it were sufficient to track "I've seen this message"
>on the server side. This is based on the assumption that fetchmail were
>the only software accessing your mailbox, evidently untrue in your case,
>and in many more cases, too. You need client-side tracking, which
>fetchmail cannot currently do for IMAP. It's on the TODO list for the
>next major release though, but resources are very limited.
>
>> 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.
>
>This is not yet implemented in fetchmail unfortunately. The patches that
>are available are also not sufficient in that they are agnostic of the
>"UIDVALIDITY".
>
>If you're just fetching messages from the INBOX, you may have more luck
>with POP3 + UIDL (the latter is important and not the default
>unfortunately).
>
>> Is there a way to accomplish this?
>
>Not in fetchmail. Sorry for that.
>
>HTH
>
>Best regards,
>
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Thank you both for the help, luckily, after some research, I found out
that the exchange server also offers a POP3 method to access the mail,
so I am able to access it through that.

Thanks!
- Lee