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Neil, |
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On Tuesday, 2022-06-14 15:20:36 +0100, you wrote: |
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> > https://getmail6.org/configuration.html#configuring |
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> Good point, it's that long since I set up getmail, I had to check if it |
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> was using IMAP or POP, and I'm using it with IMAP. Is there a reason you |
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> can't or won't use IMAP? |
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Well, the reason for using "fetchmail" at all is probably historical: It |
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was the only available mail retrieval utility on Sun's Solaris way back |
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in time. I am used to (and sort of depend on) running "fetchmail" as a |
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daemon as well as using the "dropdelivered" directive provided by it for |
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POP3 which causes fetched mail to be deleted on the server. |
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But I've meanwhile seen that "getmail" provides the "--delete" command |
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line option for that. And regarding the daemon mode I could whip up a |
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shell script which runs "getmail" together with a "sleep 60" command in |
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an infinite loop. So I could probably give it a try. |
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Sincerely, |
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Rainer |