Re: POP3 mail fetcher that supports unreliable connections?

From: Pigeon (jah.pigeon_at_ukonline.co.uk)
Date: 11/04/03

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    On Tue, Nov 04, 2003 at 12:28:21AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
    > On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 19:06, Pigeon wrote:
    > > On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 05:38:44AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
    > > > On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 16:36, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
    > > > > Is there a POP3 mail fetcher that wouldn't download messages twice
    > > > > when the POP3 connection may sometimes stall (so that the messages
    > > > > couldn't be deleted from the server)?
    > > > >
    > > > > If there is such a fetcher written in Perl based on Mail::POP3Client,
    > > > > this would be a good solution.
    > > >
    > > > Have you tried fetchmail? The messages in /var/log/mail.log seem
    > > > to indicate that it deletes each mail after a successful fetch.
    > >
    > > By default it doesn't delete them until you hang up; a connection
    > > failing may not be the equivalent of a proper hangup. You could try
    > > fetchmail -e 1 so it only fetches 1 email at a time then QUITs then
    > > goes back for the next one... but this is slow and nasty, see the man
    > > page.
    >
    > But it sure is secure.
    >
    > Btw, is your ppp connection that bad that it can't stay up for 5
    > minutes?

    My ISP's POP3 server has not been very well recently and I've had it
    die on me before fetchmail has finished a few times... for the same
    reason -e 1 would be out of the question, so I just delete the
    duplicates by hand in mutt. 

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