Fetcgmail problem

hi again
i was wondering how can i set my fetchmail
not to fetch all the mail
but the mail that is new
discarding the mail that was already been fetched

 

you can use nofetchall option with poll.

Btw, it is the default option if nothing else like fetchall or keep is specified.

Dipesh

 

ok but can i use bot keep and nofetchall

 

yes ofcourse, you can use keep for not to delete messages from server, and alongwith you can use nofetchall to fetch only newer messages

for more details about options see man page, man pages are our friends in need

 

so i have a problem
i have the nofetchall parameter
but it stil fetches all the mail
(if i use the default settings without the nofetchall
parameter i stil fetches all)
im using pop3 as protocol
any ideas waht can i do ?

 

What's in your fetchmailrc?

 

poll mail.example.com
proto pop3
user "[email protected]"
pass "password"
is myuser
keep

that's it ...

 

Add nofetchall to it.

 

it still fetches all the mail ...

 

Did you restart fetchmail?

What's the output of

Code:

updatedb
locate fetchmailrc

?

 

output:
/home/myuser/.fetchmailrc
/home/myuser/.fetchmailrc~
/usr/lib/YaST2/servers_non_y2/ag_fetchmailrc
/usr/share/doc/packages/yast2-mail/fetchmailrc.txt

 

What's in /home/myuser/.fetchmailrc?
Is there a file /etc/fetchmailrc?

 

no file in /etc/fetchmailrc
in /home/myuser/.fetchmailrc

poll my.mail.server
proto pop3
user "myusername@mydomain"
pass "password"
is mylocaluser
keep
no fetchall

P.S. thx for the replys man

 

It must be "nofetchall" (one word), not "no fetchall".

 

man it still fetches all no mater new or old ...

 

What's in /home/myuser/.fetchmailrc now?

 

Hello Falko,

I came know to about similar problem at one of client's setup. There fetchmail is running in daemon mode, with system wide config at /etc/fetchmailrc and no per user config.

There is similar problem, all mails are fetched every time. So, I came to understand that there may be some issues at ISP side, i.e. if ISP's servers are running some older version of softwares, then this might happen. The similar setup is running fine with other ISPs but just this ISP.

Dipesh

 

so my problem is with se ISP or the e-mail service provider

 

The company where you host your email account.