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

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

On Friday 06 March 2020 15:18:37 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 06.03.20 um 19:48 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > fetchmail: POP3> DELE 9
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Marked to be deleted.
> > fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> > fetchmail: POP3< +OK Logging out, messages deleted.
> > fetchmail: 6.4.2 querying pop.shentel.net (protocol POP3) at Fri 06
> > Mar 2020 01:43:17 PM EST: poll completed
> > fetchmail: New UID list from pop.shentel.net:
> >  <empty>
> > fetchmail: not swapping UID lists, no UIDs seen this query
> > fetchmail: sleeping at Fri 06 Mar 2020 01:43:17 PM EST for 120
> > seconds
> >
> > A blast of 9 messages, but despite claiming deleted, they are not,
> > and there's 247 to nuke right now.
> >
> > Your turn & thank you.
>
> You're welcome. Actually it's your ISP's turn now, because if their
> Dovecot claims the messages deleted and the same messages remain,
> something needs fixing on their end.
>
And their response has always been that they have clients using both 
interfaces who would be upset to discover that mail fetched by a 
mailfetcher and then deleted was missing when they next came in with a 
#$^(&%* browser. I drop html encoded email in my spam collector 
directory. usually unread because its generally spam.
>
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