Re: [fetchmail-users] .fetchids file location

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

Am 06.09.2009, 22:53 Uhr, schrieb Gerard <ge...@se...>:

> On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 21:34:13 +0100
> Rob MacGregor <rob...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On Sun, Sep 6, 2009 at 21:27, Gerard<ge...@se...> wrote:
>> <---SNIP--->
>> > I would assume that the server supports UIDL; however, I cannot
>> > find a '.fetchids' file on my system. Shouldn't Fetchmail be
>> > creating it?
>>
>> It will, when it has something to write.  Has it downloaded any mail
>> yet?  Can you provide a sample output from a run that downloads email?
>
> Snippet from the fetchmail.log file:
>
> fetchmail: 3 messages for user at plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com (1058633  
> octets).
> fetchmail: reading message us...@po...:1 of  
> 3 (4307 octets) flushed
> fetchmail: reading message us...@po...:2 of  
> 3 (1047924 octets) flushed
> fetchmail: reading message us...@po...:3 of  
> 3 (6402 octets) flushed
> fetchmail: 1 message for user at plus.pop.mail.yahoo.com (3960 octets).
> fetchmail: reading message us...@po...:1 of  
> 1 (3960 octets) flushed

Since you are not keeping mail on the server, fetchmail will not record  
UIDs for your messages.

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Matthias Andree