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List:       fetchmail-friends
Subject:    Re: [fetchmail] Re: how to avoid "missed" mail
From:       Matthias Andree <ma () dt ! e-technik ! uni-dortmund ! de>
Date:       2002-12-20 16:22:35
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Sunil Shetye <shetye@bombay.retortsoft.com> writes:

> Quoting from Matthias Andree's mail on Thu, Dec 19, 2002 at 06:55:38PM +0100:
>> Then there's a driver bug. fetchmail must not mark a mail it could not
>> deliver "read". However, I only tested against POP3, so I may have
>> missed that one at that time.
>
> I am not sure if this is correct for POP3. It works correctly only for
> POP3+UIDL (client side tracking).

UIDL is the only sane way for a reliable retrieval. Eric should make
that the default in the next version (it should have become the default
in 6.0.0 already).

> For POP3+LAST-UIDL (server side tracking), the mail will be marked as
> read automatically and will not be downloaded in the next cycle (not
> tested this).

LAST is broken by design.

-- 
Matthias Andree

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