Re: [Fetchmail-users] Fetchmail suddenly downloading the same messages over and over

[Rick H. <ric...@ya...>]

On Mon, 2016-12-19 at 19:30 +0100, Matthias Andree wrote:
> Am 19.12.2016 um 02:57 schrieb Rick Harris:
> 
> > > > Also since switching to --uidl, fetchmail no longer marks the
messages
> > on the remote server as being read.
> > > > Is there a way to tell fetchmail to mark the messages it downloads
as
> > read on the remote server using --uidl?
> 
> Yes, there is (since 6.3.9), but it's undocumented.
> 
> > You can set an environment variable named FETCHMAIL_POP3_FORCE_RETR
(it
> > only needs to exist even if empty, or can have any value), which
forces
> > fetchmail to use the "RETR msgno" command, whereas with UIDL,
fetchmail
> > would normally use "TOP msgno" with a huge number of lines to list
from
> the top.
> 
> > Note though that the POP3 protocol itself does not specify a notion
of
> > seen vs. unseen messages, so whatever the server does is
implementation-
> and operator-defined as far as fetchmail is concerned.
> 

That works perfectly!
Everything is back on track now and look forward to the next release.


Many thanks again,
Rick