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

[Gene H. <ghe...@sh...>]

On Thursday 14 September 2017 15:06:58 Matthias Andree wrote:

> 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.

I suspected as much.

> 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.
>
But I am out in the semi-rural and wilder brush of north central WV, they 
are the local cable company, scattered about WV, VA, PA & possibly the 
Carolina's. The alternative is Frontier.net, running on what was 
Verizons 50 yo copper, none of which is buried deep enough to clear your 
weed eater or lawnmower.  Except for this, it generally  Just Works(TM).

Thank you for checking instead of ignoring me.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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