Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > 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.
>
> By default it doesn't delete them until you hang up; a connection
> failing may not be the equivalent of a proper hangup. You could try
> fetchmail -e 1 so it only fetches 1 email at a time then QUITs then
> goes back for the next one... but this is slow and nasty, see the man
> page.
But it sure is secure.
Btw, is your ppp connection that bad that it can't stay up for 5
minutes?
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