On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 12:44:35AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
> No thanks, I'm not interested in a non-reliable workaround.
Or in actually reading documentation, apparently:
(from man fetchmail)
Disposal Options
-a | --all
(Keyword: fetchall) Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages
from the mailserver. The default is to fetch only messages the
server has not marked seen. Under POP3, this option also forces
the use of RETR rather than TOP. Note that POP2 retrieval
behaves as though --all is always on (see RETRIEVAL FAILURE
MODES below) and this option does not work with ETRN or ODMR.
> | while :; do
> | fetchmail --verbose --nodetach --fetchlimit 2 -i /dev/null \
> | --fetchmailrc ./.fetchmailrc.daemon-stanza-commented-out
> | sleep 5
> | done
If the POP server you're talking to is SO unreliable that you need to use
'fetchlimit 2', you need to find a better class of ISP.
Gotta love the stupidities people will go to just to avoid actually
learning something.
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msw@cox.net | Alexander Pope
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