Re: [Fetchmail-users] fetchmail vs divecot server setup for pop3 and imap

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

On Friday 06 March 2020 09:01:04 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 06.03.20 um 14:28 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > greetings all;
> >
> > And dovecot ignores fetchmails dele, make me login with a browser to
> > delete old mail I've already fetched. Since traffic is several
> > hundred a day, thats rather a nuisance.
>
> Gene, what distro is your Dovecot on?

Not my dovecot, my ISP's.

> Normally I consider it 
> well-behaved. Can you confirm that your session completes through the
> "QUIT" command and does not abort prematurely?

What sort of a debugging command would expose that to my perusal?

> Because on well-behaved 
> POP3 servers, DELE are only deletion requests that are queued up and
> kept pending unapplied until the client sends a "QUIT" command, when
> the DELE will actually be committed.
>
> Also, does your mail store have proper permissions for Dovecot to
> actually write, if you are sharing it with Webmail?

My mail store is the /home/gene/Mail/etc database tde's version of 
kmail-1.9 maintains.  So I guess I am not understanding what you are 
seeking.

Thanks.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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