Re: [Fetchmail-users] incorrect message count

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

On Saturday 28 November 2020 10:14:08 rus...@gm... wrote:

> 	It seems gmail mis-reports:
>
> 	fetchmail: POP3> LIST 2
> 	fetchmail: POP3< +OK 2 69962
> 	fetchmail: POP3> TOP 2 99999999
> 	fetchmail: POP3< +OK message follows
> 	reading message bil...@po...:2 of 2 (69962 octets)
> 	.
> 	.
> 	.
>
> 	fetchmail: POP3> DELE 2
> 	fetchmail: POP3< +OK marked for deletion
> 	fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> 	fetchmail: POP3< +OK Farewell.
>
> but there's only 1 message; the octet count is right; accessing it via
> browser shows only 1 message.
>
> 	Of course I inspected /var/spool/mail/billybomb first.  I
> hadn't known about the different protocols for mbox; that wasn't
> relevant to my situation.
>
> 	Apologies for bothering you.  Thanks for your help.
>
> russell bell
>
I don't know about gmail as I bailed out of that years ago due to their 
non-compliance with the RFC's that supposedly govern email. Wasn't worth 
the headaches it causes.

But my ISP's current mail server, dovecot, which serves up the email for 
both pop3 and imap from the same directory, dishonors a pop3 DELE 
because some customers use both, but does honor an IMAP DELE, so I 
switched my fetchmail to use the imap protocol, so now I don't have to 
log in with a browser and sit here killing messages 100 at a time for 
half an hour a month just to keep my mailbox from being such a spam 
source and target. Sweet. Someone should try it with scroowgle and see 
if it works.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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