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Re: Bad E-mail setup in office. I need advice



On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 02:53:53AM +0100, s. keeling wrote:

> On the other hand, keep mail on server means every invocation of
> fetchmail grabs yet another copy of the mail box, and if you've set it
> up to poll every five minutes, you may find you have six thousand
> copies of whatever landed in your mailbox that day.

Actually, practically all POP3 servers support listing the content of a
mailbox and also providing the UUID of each message, which allows the
client to decide which messages to fetch.

IIRC, that is.

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