Re: [fetchmail-devel] POP3 UIDL behavior

[Seth M. <se...@ro...>]

And here's the debug output using my patched version of fetchmail:


fetchmail:/var/lib/fetchmail/test# cat uidl
se...@ma... 0001179e45a1729f
se...@ma... 0001179f45a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a045a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a145a1729f
se...@ma... 0001179e45a1729f
se...@ma... 0001179f45a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a045a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a145a1729f

fetchmail:/var/lib/fetchmail/test# su fetchmail -c 'fetchmail --quit -f 
/var/lib/fetchmail/test/fetchmailrc --pidfile 
/var/lib/fetchmail/test/fetchmail.pid -i /var/lib/fetchmail/test/uidl -vvN'
fetchmail: Old UID list from mail.mattinen.org: 0001179e45a1729f 
0001179f45a1729f 000117a045a1729f 000117a145a1729f 0001179e45a1729f 
0001179f45a1729f 000117a045a1729f 000117a145a1729f <empty>
fetchmail: Scratch list of UIDs: <empty>
fetchmail: starting fetchmail 6.3.9 daemon
fetchmail: 6.3.9 querying mail.mattinen.org (protocol POP3) at Wed 28 
Jan 2009 10:08:20 PM PST: poll started
fetchmail: Trying to connect to 67.118.43.90/995...connected.
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Courier Mail Server
fetchmail: Issuer CommonName: mail.mattinen.org
fetchmail: Server CommonName: mail.mattinen.org
fetchmail: mail.mattinen.org key fingerprint: 
0D:B9:98:10:A0:C7:B6:4C:70:92:6C:EE:C6:BB:99:1C
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: self signed certificate
fetchmail: Server certificate verification error: certificate has expired
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Dovecot ready.
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< TOP
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< PIPELINING
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< SASL PLAIN
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER sethm
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logged in.
fetchmail: selecting or re-polling default folder
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 4 1792
fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 0001179e45a1729f
fetchmail: POP3< 2 0001179f45a1729f
fetchmail: POP3< 3 000117a045a1729f
fetchmail: POP3< 4 000117a145a1729f
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: 4 messages (4 seen) for sethm at mail.mattinen.org (1792 octets).
fetchmail: skipping message se...@ma...:1 not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message se...@ma...:2 not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message se...@ma...:3 not flushed
fetchmail: skipping message se...@ma...:4 not flushed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out.
fetchmail: 6.3.9 querying mail.mattinen.org (protocol POP3) at Wed 28 
Jan 2009 10:08:20 PM PST: poll completed
fetchmail: New UID list from mail.mattinen.org: 0001179e45a1729f = 1 
0001179f45a1729f = 1 000117a045a1729f = 1 000117a145a1729f = 1 <empty>
fetchmail: swapping UID lists
fetchmail: Query status=1 (NOMAIL)
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
fetchmail: sleeping at Wed 28 Jan 2009 10:08:20 PM PST for 15 seconds
fetchmail: terminated with signal 2
fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.

fetchmail:/var/lib/fetchmail/test# cat uidl
se...@ma... 0001179e45a1729f
se...@ma... 0001179f45a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a045a1729f
se...@ma... 000117a145a1729f


Nothing in the configuration was changed and the same uidl file 
(including the duplicates, which were weeded out) was used. Note the 
oldlist is now populated at start time whereas it wasn't with the 
unpatched version.

-- 
Seth Mattinen		se...@ro...
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