Re: Why IMAP instead of POP3 [was: getting mail from Exchange/Outlook]
On Thursday 14 September 2017 11:23:10 David Wright wrote:
> 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
>
> ↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑↑
>
> > > > 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"?
In my instant case, its irrevelent because they have fixed dovecot to
ignore the "dele' that the no keep tells fetchmail to send.
>
> Cheers,
> David.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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