RE: GLUG: e-mail reader

[Mangiola Nunzio Datavia <NunzioM@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I use the lazy approach.

I got to http://www.fetchmail.com and delete all my mail from there.

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> From: 	craniac@xxxxxxxxx[SMTP:craniac@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: 	05 July 2000 12:09
> To: 	glug@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: 	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
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