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

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

On 11/10/2020 18.50, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2020 08:10:37 Carlos E. R. wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> I don't think it works when coming in thru its pop.isp-name port 995,
> Does fetchmail 6.4.8 even speak imap?

Certainly fetchmail talks imap. I am on fetchmail-6.3.26 myself, I have 
been using imap for more than a decade or two. It was some mail servers 
which did not provide imap, but fetchmail had it as long as I remember.



-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

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