Re: [Fetchmail-users] making fetchmail delete a successfully downloaded email from dovecot

[Carlos E. R. <rob...@te...>]

On 11/10/2020 14.03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
> 
> I just spent slightly over an hour deleting old email from my ISP mail
> server 100 at a time, about 8 months worth and over 30,000 msgs.
> 
> Shentel.net does not allow fetchmail to delete a downloaded email because
> their dovecot server handles imap and pop3 from the same directory and
> somebody might want to come in from imap.

I don't understand this.

What I would do, is log it to the imap server with any mail client (say 
mutt, Alpine, Thunderbird), select all the messages and "click" delete.

Surely you can also log to that imap-server using fetchmail, too.



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Cheers / Saludos,

		Carlos E. R.
		(from 15.1 x86_64 at Telcontar)