Re: Why IMAP instead of POP3 [was: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook]
On Thursday 14 September 2017 10:40:48 Frank wrote:
> Op 14-09-17 om 14:15 schreef tomas@tuxteam.de:
> > I know, with pop3 you can theoretically leave your mail at the
> > server, but... the protocol makes it very difficult to see that
> > you don't download mails twice, or many times.
>
> Not in my experience. What makes you think it's difficult?
I don't either, fetchmail has zero problems ignoring messages previously
seen and pulled, been doing it for years. The options in
your .fetchmailrc are
'fetchall' and
'no keep'
>
> Regards,
> Frank
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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