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

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

Am 06.09.2011 04:01, schrieb Nelson Serafica:
> 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. 

Fetchmail assumes that the user@server name is unique, but neither
validates nor enforces that.  Your configuration violates that
assumption and malfunctions in the observed way.

I suppose that when reading back messages, all UIDs read from both user
lines are actually stored for the first ne...@ma... poll.

I won't add a relevant check to fetchmail 6.X though, and probably not
to 7.X either. I might do something about this in 8.X, but that's a long
way from now.

> Is this the real behavior of fetchmail?

Looks like it.

For a different approach to what you might by trying to achieve, see
Rob's response.