Re: [Fetchmail-users] Earthlink changed its incoming server names

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 08.06.21 um 02:38 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> On Monday 07 June 2021 20:33:15 Michael Burgoon wrote:
>
>> It appears that EarthLink is having some serious technical problems.
>> I’m getting all sorts of errors from all my devices that, up to now,
>> have had no issues. Everything works fine for a couple days, then it
>> all goes south.
>>
>> I’m thinking that my original problem was related to their issues. I
>> went back and put -U back and it worked fine.  Sorry to bother you
>> with someone else’s problem.
>>
>> However, please tell me how to run fetch mail at startup under an id
>> other than root. There’s not a lot I can do about pop’s lack of
>> security. They support a pop, but that’s it, they want you to use IMAP
>> where they support SSL. Can fetchmail be used with IMAP, and still
>> delete the emails on the server when it retrieves them?
>>
>> Best,
>>
>> Mike B
> In one word, Mike, yes. I am doing it.

Gene, Thanks for that one, had missed it.

Mike, and just one remark to add: this works best if you have no other
client marking the mail as read, or if you use fetchmail with "all" and
"nokeep".

fetchmail's IMAP mode does not have an equivalent of POP3's --uidl yet
(as of 6.4.x and older versions), and it by default only retrieves
unread e-mail in IMAP mode. 

HTH
Matthias