Re: [fetchmail-devel] Fwd: fetchmail downloading with message number as a parameter

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 12.11.2013 10:20, schrieb Matthias Andree:
> Am 12.11.2013 06:51, schrieb Joe M:
>> Joe M wrote:
>>> I am attaching a patch to add a --startnum option to fetchmail.
>>
>> Attached is an updated patch which adds this option to fetchmail.man
>>
>> Any comments, please?
>>
>> Thanks
>> Joe
> 
> Joe,
> 
> thanks a bunch for your contribution.
> 
> I am only wondering what limitations of either hotmail or your SMTP sink
> this is trying to work around that are not already solved -- and if it
> will remain useful at all for 7.x when make UIDL support mandatory.  The
> code is there, on the "master" branch in Git.
> 
> The URL is https://gitorious.org/fetchmail/fetchmail/
> 
> Would you be able to check if the code is fit for fetchmail's master branch?
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Best regards
> Matthias

Joe,

As an update, I just polled my pop3.live.com accounts and figured that
--uidl works for me on that account.  Note that using --keep without
--uidl is a dangerous endeavor, meaning that if you use LAST or a
locally recorded message number, this setup is prone to mail loss or
skipping, should messages before the designated start number disappear
or should a downloaded message fail to be forwarded.

That comment above does not rule out my taking your patch, it may be
useful to re-setup things if the UID database should ever get damaged
(although I have not had reports of corruption of the .fetchids file in
a long time), we may however need to extend your patch so that if you
say "--startnum 1001", fetchmail could optionally record the first 1000
POP3 UIDs as seen.

Hope that passes for a comment for the nonce :-)

Thanks again!

Best regards
Matthias