Fetchmail question

Jonesy gmane at jonz.net
Thu Sep 6 13:21:02 UTC 2012


On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:22:32 +0000 (UTC), Jonesy wrote:
> On Wed, 5 Sep 2012 14:30:59 +0100, R Kimber wrote:
>> I've been using fetchmail to download my email from the BT Yahoo email
>> server with no problems for a very long time.
>>
>> Recently, something has changed at the server end such that when fetchmail
>> downloads and deletes the messages from the server, the server copies the
>> deleted messages to the Trash folder in my webmail account.  So I have a
>> Trash folder that grows rapidly.
>>
>> Is there any way I can get fetchmail (or some other program) to delete these
>> messages in the Trash folder automatically? My ISP support tells me there's
>> nothing that can be done at their end.
>>
>> I just using the stripcr and fetchall options with fetchmail.
>
>   comp.mail.misc
>
>   Post (and filter) with "[Fetchmail]" in the Subject:

Well, there's also

     gmane.mail.fetchmail.user

 ... which appears to be far more active.

HTH
Jonesy





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