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

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

On 11/10/2020 22.36, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Sunday 11 October 2020 15:29:02 Lucio Chiappetti wrote:
> 
>> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
>>>>>>> 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 cannot talk for your provider, but can tell my experience with
>> gsuite (gmail) since my institution moved to it.
> 
> Where do I send flowers of sympathy? gmail was broken the 6 months I put
> up with it
> 
> It took a wee bit of tinkering & studying of the manpage, but its now
> using imap and successfully expunging what it fetches. So until they
> fill the spam folder up too, I am a happy camper.

poll SERVER with proto imap timeout 20, and tracepolls
        user USERNAME, with password PASS, is cer here, and fetchall, expunge 20,  folders Inbox, Spam, Junk

I have not tried it with gmail.


-- 
Cheers / Saludos,

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