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[Bas van Gils]

On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:53:07AM -0800, eric dan wrote:
>    is there another option to leave mail on the server but not get the
>    same mail all the time again when i retrieve it?
>    right now i have 5 copies of all messages in my inbox and everytime i
>    use getmail i get another one.

Hi,

I'm not 100% up to speed with getmail but I thought I'd post anyway to see if
I could help. I use fetchmail rather than getmail (and wrote a short howto to
setup fetchmail with procmail [1]). In man fetchmail I read:

       -a | --all
              (Keyword:  fetchall)  Retrieve  both old (seen) and new messages
              from the mailserver.  The default is to fetch only messages  the
              server has not marked seen.  Under POP3, this option also forces
              the use of RETR rather  than  TOP.   Note  that  POP2  retrieval
              behaves  as  though  --all  is  always on (see RETRIEVAL FAILURE
              MODES below) and this option does not work with ETRN or ODMR.


       -k | --keep
              (Keyword:  keep)  Keep  retrieved   messages   on   the   remote
              mailserver.   Normally,  messages are deleted from the folder on
              the mailserver after they have been retrieved.   Specifying  the
              keep  option  causes retrieved messages to remain in your folder
              on the mailserver.  This option does not work with ETRN or ODMR.

This tells me that if you use fetchmail *with* the -k and *without* the -a
option you get exactly what you want. Perhaps getmail has similar options, you
could check the man pages I suppose...

Hope this helps,

  Bas  




[1] http://osiris.cs.kun.nl/~basvg/misc/howto.html

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