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List:       fetchmail-friends
Subject:    Re: [fetchmail] Popclean: a proposed solution for FAQ item G5
From:       "Eric S. Raymond" <esr () thyrsus ! com>
Date:       2003-03-28 5:08:28
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Jan Klaverstijn <jan@klaverstijn.nl>:
> Dear fetchmail friends,
> 
> Let me quote the following FAQ item:
> 
> G5. I want to make fetchmail behave like Outlook Express. The second-most-
> requested feature for fetchmail, after content-based filtering, is the ability
> to have it remove messages from a maildrop after N days, typically to be used
> with the keep option as a sort of poor man's newsgroup facility. Microsoft's
> Outlook Express supports this. 
> 
> This feature won't be added either. Repeat after
> me: fetchmail's job is transport, not policy. If you want this, write a Perl or
> Python script, to be run from a cron job, that deletes old messages off your
> maildrop. Send it to me and I'll put it in the contrib directory.
> 
> End of quote.
> 
> After yet another such request for this a while ago, this time by Father Peter,
> I decided to ask him to try out my perl script called popclean. Father Peter's
> invaluable patience and feedback helped me develop this script into what I now
> think is potentially usable by a wider audience. Popclean deletes messages that
> were received by a pop server N hours ago, but only if they are downloaded by
> fetchmail before. Account information is obtained from .fetchmailrc. Quite a few
> options control the script. SSL is on my to-do list. Please visit
> http://www.klaverstijn.nl/popclean for more details and a download.
> 
> If you think it's on OK solution, I would like to have it put into the contrib.
> 
> Let me know what you think.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Jan Klaverstijn

I'll take this for the contrib directory.
-- 
		<a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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