Re: fetchmail misbehaviour
On Tue, 2005-11-08 at 18:34 +1100, Robert S wrote:
> I have been fetchmail/cron to retrieve messages from my ISP's
> mailserver (POP). Messages are being left on the server. This system
> has been running for at least a year without a glitch. Last night I
>
> found over 2000 messages in my inbox - for some reason fetchmail has
> started not recognising messages as being "read" and is retrieving them
> every 30 minutes. I recently upgraded clamav, but the fetchmail binary
>
> and its config files have not changed. My configuration:
>
> me@debian:~$ cat .fetchmailrc
> poll pop.******.com.au
> proto pop3
> user "****"
> pass "*******"
> keep
>
>
> me@debian:~$ crontab -l
> 0,30 * * * * /usr/bin/fetchmail -s &> /dev/null
>
> Can somebody explain why this has occurred? I seem to remember having
> this problem a number of years ago. I'm beginning to think that using
>
> fetchmail with the "keep" option is not a good idea.
Maybe the ISP did something?
Why are you leaving them on the POP server?
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