Re: [Fetchmail-users] oddball, but probably viral ISP emil server configuration

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

Am 14.09.2017 um 10:49 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> Greetings all;
>
> My ISP is running an imap/pop3 combined email server, but they, because 
> its shared with imap users, have disabled fetchmails ability to delete 
> the successfully pulled message. I have had somewhat heated discussions 
> with the tech people, but they are convinced its the only way they can 
> make imap work from any customers machines.

Which is nonsense.

> They also do not, when logged into the webmail, actually delete the mails 
> selected for deletion, but silently move them, maximum of 100 at a time, 
> to the trash folder, and it does not show a message count until you 
> select it, and discover nearly 30,000 old emails sitting in there. That 
> folder can be one click cleared, except this whole procedure just cost 
> me an hour and a half to do the moves, and then the folder clearing.
>
> Is there some way I can make fetchmail automatically, not dele, that is 
> ignored, but move to the trash, each message as its successfully 
> downloaded?
Unfortunately there isn't. Code to copy messages to trash (not all IMAP
servers can actually /move/) hasn't been written for fetchmail.
The proper answer is to find a ISP with clueful staff...

Sorry.