Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail can't delete a fetched email

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

Am 29.11.18 um 16:08 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> Greetins all;
>
> My isp seems to handle a request into its mailserver, which I believe is 
> dovecot, in pop3 mode, by disabling fetchmails housekeeping cleanup of 
> successfully fetched emails, so in a days time I have seen 450+ emails 
> pile up, the I have to log into that same server with a browser and the 
> browser can then delete these msgs 100 at a time.
>
> Is there a keyword stronger than "no-keep" that can override its 
> inability to expunge read messages by using the same expunge method a 
> browser uses?


Well, we need to establish what's causing it. POP3 does not require some
kind of expiration or expunging, it's just that if you delete messages
and then close the session properly, the messages are supposed to be
gone. I know some servers ignore such requests, for instance, Google.

There are options in fetchmail that can limit how many messages it
fetches (and hence, without keep, deletes) in one run, but the best
thing is to look at the logs... the usual recommendations are at
<http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>.