Re: Clearing a mail spool of duplicate emails???

[Martin Uecker <uecker_1@strahlentherapie.uni-wuerzburg.de>]

Colin Marquardt wrote:
> >> > my mail spool. Is there a package which will scan my mail spool and
> >>
> >> What options do you give fetchmail? I just use -a (plus -vvv when I
> >> want to check something out), and right after correctly receiving a
> >> message from the server, it flushes it (this is version 4.6.4). So,
> >> in case of interruption, only the last mail should be duplicated, if
> >> at all.
> 
> > man fetchmail (--expunge)
> 
>        -e, --expunge
>               (keyword: expunge) When talking to an IMAP  server,
>               [...]
>               the end of run).  This option does  not  work  with
>               ETRN, POP2, or POP3.

fetchmail-5.0.1 (Sun Apr 18 14:59:56 EDT 1999):
[...]
* Can now use expunge option to chop POP3 retrievals into subsessions.

Sorry, i didn't know it was a new feature.
Please try a recent version.
 
Martin