On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 12:01:47PM -0500, Jason wrote:
As another option, both getmail and thunderbird can be configured to leave messages on the server and then delete them a certain number of days after retrieval. Using that feature in getmail, you could access the same messages in thunderbird, and tell thunderbird to not delete messages.
Thanks for jogging my memory. It has been so long since I configured getmail that I forgot that getmail can serve unrelated accounts and deliver to multiple locations, each with its own structure (mbox or maildir). I suppose I need to reduce the limit of the number of messages downloaded in a sesson, so as to enable more frequent checks for incoming messages. At present getmail runs every three minutes. But I do not have a feel for the load imposed on a mail server by frequent checks. Would an ISP frown on a check every minute?
As for PDF attachments, I use getmail to deliver to maildrop, which then runs a copy of the email through ripmime to automatically save the attachments to a directory.
And I keep forgetting about maildrop, which I have used in the past. RLH
