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

[Joe M <joe...@gm...>]

I inadvertently forwarded the below email to Mr. Matthias instead of
the list. Hence, sending to the list now.


---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Joe M <joe...@gm...>
Date: Thu, Nov 14, 2013 at 8:36 PM
Subject: Re: [fetchmail-devel] Fwd: fetchmail downloading with message
number as a parameter
To: Matthias Andree <mat...@gm...>


Hello Matthias,

> 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.

This seems to have happened and I did not get your email.

> 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 for responding. It makes sense to use --uidl. I was downloading
from multiple email accounts with different fetchmailrc (but, did not
change the FETCHMAILHOME) and I guess the .fetchids was getting
overwritten or something like that. Hence, I thought that there was no
such functionality in fetchmail.

> Thanks again!

Thank you and Sorry for the delay.

Thanks again,
Joe