The cache doesn't expire, otherwise it would refetch mail.
I should really convert this and the NNTP cache to reuse the generic
cache code which does support expiry.
2009/4/22 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com>:
> On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 23:17:56 Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>> fdm doesn't keep track of mail it has seen unless you tell it to. Due
>> to limitations in POP3 it requires a separate cache file (IMAP does
>> not require one). Look for new-only and old-only in the manual, IIRC
>> they have been there since about 1.4... I've been slacking on fdm
>> recently so they certainly haven't been added after the latest
>> release.
>>
>> As ft says you can use keep to tell fdm not to delete the mail after
>> it has been fetched, but it will of course fetch it again next time
>> unless you use new-only.
>
> Yes, the bug report was for that part of the problem itself. I have new-only
> defined in my settings, but still it downloaded the same emails again..
>
> here's my settings:
> account "company-pop3" disabled pop3
> server "company.hostname.com"
> user "rrs"
> pass "password"
> new-only cache "${base}/company-cache"
> keep
>
> "keep" was the only new keyword I added today. Otherwise everything was
> there before. But still it re-downloaded messages. I am going to test it
> again tomorrow to confirm the behavior.
>
> BTW, does the cache expire ever ?
>
> Ritesh
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> "Necessity is the mother of invention."
>
>
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