I have been fetchmail/cron to retrieve messages from my ISP's
mailserver (POP). Messages are being left on the server. This system
has been running for at least a year without a glitch. Last night I
found over 2000 messages in my inbox - for some reason fetchmail has
started not recognising messages as being "read" and is retrieving them
every 30 minutes. I recently upgraded clamav, but the fetchmail binary
and its config files have not changed. My configuration:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat .fetchmailrc
poll pop.******.com.au
proto pop3
user "****"
pass "*******"
keep
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ crontab -l
0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s &> /dev/null
Can somebody explain why this has occurred? I seem to remember having
this problem a number of years ago. I'm beginning to think that using
fetchmail with the "keep" option is not a good idea.
