On Sun, 30 Nov 1997, Pann McCuaig wrote: > After years of reading my mail with pine from a shell on my ISP's machine, > I've got a fetchmail/mutt/smail setup running here (on a bo installation). > > Sometimes when I connect to my ISP and run fetchmail, everything appears to > be normal, but the downloaded messages are _NOT_ appended to my mail spool, > and, fortunately, they are also not deleted from the mail spool on the ISP.
I've seen this too. It's a feature of fetchmail. By default it leaves mail that has been "read but not deleted". This happens if I run pine in my account at the ISP. Mail that was in the mailbox when pine was run is not later fetched by fetchmail. It's all in the fetchmail man page. See the section "RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES" and elsewhere. You need to add the -all option. ...RickM... -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
