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Re: fetchmail



I don't think -k on its own is what you're looking for.  This keeps
messages on the remote server, but marks them as read.  However, it may
be of some use in conjunction with the -a (fetchall) option.  This makes
fetchmail fetch all messages, including those marked as read.

HTH
Rich

wtopa@ix.netcom.com wrote:
> 
>         Subject: Re: fetchmail
>         Date: Thu, Mar 04, 1999 at 10:28:33PM +1100
> 
> In reply to:Shao Zhang
> 
> Quoting Shao Zhang(shaoz@unsw.edu.au):
> >
> >
> > Sorry, I did not describe what I want very clear. What I need is to leave
> > them as Unread on the pop3 server. I retrieve them from pop3 at work, I
> > want those mails still set to unread & when I retrieve them for the second
> > time, I still know what are the new messages I checked earlier at work. I
> > guess I am trying to get it working more similar to an IMAP server.
> >
> > thx
> 
> man fetchmail says -k
> 
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