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Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?



On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice
> when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages
> couldn't be deleted from the server)?
> 
> If there is such a fetcher written in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client,
> this would be a good solution.

Have you tried fetchmail?  The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem
to indicate that it deletes each mail after a successful fetch.

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