Re: fetchmail leaves messages on pop3 server

From: Michele Andreoli (m.andreoli@tin.it)
Date: Sat Mar 18 2000 - 22:49:35 CET


On Sat, Mar 18, 2000 at 08:24:46PM +0000, Andreas Diesmann nicely wrote:
> hi,
> fetchmail don't deletes my messages on the server
> i configured it using setup -f pop3 and set REMOVE_Messages to 'y' (i tried 'yes' too)
> but fetching mails leaves all messages on the server ?
>
> any other t-online user here ?

I think basically isn't a good thing to remove your emails from your
server, because muLinux fetchmail is not so reliable. So, I'm not
sure if removing work, because I used with remove=no.

>
> using fetchmail from the command line causes an error (i think the firewall):
> DNS fwd/rev mismatch: fwdall.sul.t-online.de != fwd07.sul.t-online.de
> but i get the mails
> ------

Do not worry about this kind of netcat message: it inform you about
mismatch beetwen dns lookup.

Michele

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