Re: Mutt displays mail twice... :-s

[Wayne Topa <brittman@capital.net>]

Tom(tom@abwaerts.be) is reported to have said:
> * [28/10/2003 02:14] Derrick 'dman' Hudson <dman@dman13.dyndns.org>:
> 
> > | However, the longer this takes, the more I'm beginning to feel a little
> > | nervous, since it undoubtedly has to do with some misconfiguration of
> > | mine.
> > 
> > Don't be so nervous, you just get duplicate mails.  It's not the worst
> > that could happen :-).
> 
> I wasnt' getting nervous about the duplicate mails, it was about the
> misconfiguration. :-)
> 
> > Can you post the entire headers for both of those messages? 
> 
> Well, it's two other messages now, but that of course doesn't matter.
> Headers are attached...
> 
> > As you've noted, the problem isn't in mutt or procmail.  The
> > duplication happens before either of those programs
> > becomes involved.
> 
> I like logic. :-)
> 
> > You have fetchmail running twice -- once as user 'fetchmail' and once
> > as user 'tom'.  Both instances are grabbing the mail from your POP box
> > and passing it on to exim. You have fetchmail set to not remove
> > messages from the server, and POP has limited capability of
> > identifying "read" messages, so each fetchmail ends up fetching each
> > message.
> 
> Hm. As a matter of fact, I have the same polling lines from my
> .fetchmailrc in /etc/fetchmailrc, but I thought this wouldn't matter,
> since I have "no keep" at the end of those lines? Doesn't "no keep" mean
> to delete mail at the server once retrieved?

Kinda, except you entered it wrong.

[from man fetchmail]
-K | --nokeep
      (Keyword: nokeep)
      
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