Re: [fetchmail-devel] [fetchmail-users] "retained" in fetchmail log

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

On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 4:44 PM, Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...> wrote:
> I see these alternatives:
>
> A1 - the obvious option would be to add a "noretain" keyword that would
> tell fetchmail to never retain messages.
>
> A2 - the less obvious option I have suggested, and that is to require
> that servers do not expose their internals to clients, and remove the
> kludge code in fetchmail for good (although it is tiny enough to not
> care about code size).
>
> A3 - I might also, instead of A1, default this code to off and add a
> "kludge-retain-folder-internal-data" option, which would be somewhat
> quieter than in fetchmail 6.3.X.
>
> Opinions?

A2 makes the most sense to me for 7.0. If you weren't already making a
number of significant changes I'd have supported A3, but you are so
it's probably time to abandon support for things superseded
(repeatedly) over a decade ago ;)

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