Re: [fetchmail-users] uidl doesnt work in multiple account

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

On Tue, Sep 6, 2011 at 03:01, Nelson Serafica <nts...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm trying to use fetchmail in downloading my hosted email to another 2
> email account on my local machine. I want to copy the hosted emails to my 2
> local account. Here is the content of my .fetchmailrc
>
> poll mail.foo.com protocol pop3 uidl:
>  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts2" here options keep;
>  user "nelson" password "abc123" is "nelsonts" here options keep;
>
> Then I run the command fetchmail -v -U -k -S localhost/587.
>
> However, I notice that on the nelsonts account keeps on downloading the old
> emails. It seems that uidl only working on the nelsonts2 account. Would it
> be possible to apply also the uidl to the next account. Is this the real
> behavior of fetchmail?

If you're wanting to download the email and send it to 2 different
recipients it would be better to use an alias on your local SMTP
server.

Otherwise, please see section G3 of the FAQ
(http://fetchmail.berlios.de/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3).

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