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Fetchmail settings help needed

  • 12-01-2006 10:13PM
    #1
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭


    hi all,
    I'm trying to use fetchmail to collect mail from a pop server and deliver it to an a/c on my localhost. problem is the connection is dodgy, and drops at random, and the mail server at their end is dodgy and drops connections for no reasons. There's quite a volume of mails to be collected each day, and the duplicate mails from multiple downloads is very annoying.
    Is there any way of setting fetchmail to download only 20 mails, then disconnect? so if it does drop, I've only got those 20 to redownload?

    Thanks
    B:confused:


Comments

  • #2
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    There are some options available under Resource Limit Control Options. See man fetchmail

    Are you running fetchmail in daemon mode?


  • #3
    Bogger77
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,857 ✭✭✭Bogger77


    I've gone with
    fetchmail -d 900 - B 20


  • #4
    oscarBravo
    Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 28,862 Mod ✭✭✭✭oscarBravo


    Strange - on my server, fetchmail flushes every message after a successful fetch. I don't see how duplicates can happen in that scenario.


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