Re: GLUG: e-mail reader

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On Tue, Jul 04, 2000 at 02:05:38PM +0200, Jan-Albert Venter wrote:

> Friday night, I was at my parents house so I had to check my mail from
> windows using OE, I had 1457 mesagges (it was a slow day)
> Outlook timed out on message number 1456 !!!!!!
> 
> I ended up having to download everything again, stopping and restarting
> every 100 mails.
> 
> The best results you'll get is to use fetchmail in conjunction with pine
> IMHO.

I use fetchmail (with mutt) and have a similar problem.  If the line
drops or something else causes the POP3 session to fail the quit
obviously doesn't happen and the deletes of the mails that have been
retrieved are not committed.  I know that this is per the POP3 RFC.

When I try again, fetchmail fetches those messages again giving me
duplicates.  Do I have it configured incorrectly?  Is it possible for
fetchmail to merely delete messages from the server if it downloaded
them before?  Alternatively can it be made to "batch" the fetching of
mail by quitting and reestablishing the  POP3 connection at some set
interval so that deletes are committed?
-- 
Steve Crane
http://craniac.daveworld.org