Re: Why IMAP instead of POP3 [was: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook]
On Thu 14 Sep 2017 at 10:59:01 (-0400), Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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
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> > > 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'
How does 'no keep' match up with
> > > "leave your mail at the server"?
Cheers,
David.
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