Kelly Scroggins proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>Quoting Suresh Ramasubramanian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> ching wang proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> >I am new to mutt, and just started to use it to retrieve mail from a
> >pop3 account on my ISP. I have trouble figuring out a way to avoid
> >downloading the same messages whenever I hit shift-g. I don't have this
> >problem when using netscape mail: it will not download messages already
> >in my local mailbox.
>Or use this setting in your .muttrc :
> set pop_delete
>This will delete the messages on your pop server
>as you retrieve them.
That's not what this guy wants - he wants to download only unread mail. I
don't think he wants to expunge mails from his pop mailbox after
downloading them.
Something like this.
> defaults
> forcecr
> poll your.pop.server.com with proto pop3
> user foo with password *****
> keep
If he wanted to expunge mails from his pop server he'd have to use
"fetchall" instead of "keep" in his .fetchmailrc.
hth
-suresh
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