On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice > > when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages > > couldn't be deleted from the server)? > > > > If there is such a fetcher written in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client, > > this would be a good solution. > > Have you tried fetchmail? The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem > to indicate that it deletes each mail after a successful fetch.
By default it doesn't delete them until you hang up; a connection failing may not be the equivalent of a proper hangup. You could try fetchmail -e 1 so it only fetches 1 email at a time then QUITs then goes back for the next one... but this is slow and nasty, see the man page. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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