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diff --git a/fetchmail-FAQ.html b/fetchmail-FAQ.html index 0bb1819d..84c1ce95 100644 --- a/fetchmail-FAQ.html +++ b/fetchmail-FAQ.html @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/23 18:21:37 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/01/09 07:52:09 $ </table> <HR> <H1>Frequently Asked Questions About Fetchmail</H1> @@ -59,6 +59,7 @@ IP address?</a><br> <a href="#C2">C2. How can I arrange for a fetchmail daemon to get killed when I log out?</a><br> <a href="#C3">C3. How do I know what interface and address to use with --interface?</a><br> <a href="#C4">C4. How can I set up support for sendmail's anti-spam features?</a><br> +<a href="#C5">C5. How can I poll some of my mailboxes more/less often than others?</a><br> <h1>How to make fetchmail play nice with various MTAs:</h1> @@ -144,6 +145,8 @@ a line hit while downloading?</a><br> <a href="#O6">O6. I'm seeing long sendmail delays or hangs near the start of each poll cycle.</a><br> <a href="#O7">O7. Why doesn't fetchmail deliver mail in date-sorted order?</a><br> <a href="#O8">O8. I'm using pppd. Why isn't my monitor option working?</a><br> +<a href="#O9">O9. Why does fetchmail keep retrieving the same messages +over and over?</a><br> <h1>Answers:</h1> <hr> @@ -966,6 +969,25 @@ you accept mail from</strong> using fetchmail into your reject file. You <strong>will</strong> lose mail if you do this!!!<p> <hr> +<h2><a name="C5">C5. How can I poll some of my mailboxes more/less +often than others?</a></h2> + +Use the <cite>interval</cite> keyword on the ones that should be +checked less often. For example, if you do a poll every 5 minutes, +and want to poll some mailboxes every 5 minutes and some every 30 +minutes, use something like this:<p> + +<pre> +poll mainsite.example.com proto pop3 user .... +poll secondary.example.com proto pop3 interval 6 user ... +</pre> + +Then secondary.example.com will be polled every 6th time that +mainsite.example.com is polled, which with a polling interval of every +5 minutes means that secondary.example.com will be polled every 30 +minutes.<p> + +<hr> <h2><a name="T1">T1. How can I use fetchmail with sendmail?</a></h2> For most sendmails, no special configuration is required. Eric Allman @@ -2510,11 +2532,26 @@ relies upon, triggering fetchmail into polling after its own delay interval and thus preventing the pppd link from ever reaching its inactivity timeout.<p> +<hr> +<h2><a name="O9">O9. Why does fetchmail keep retrieving the same messages +over and over?</h2> + +First, check to see that you haven't enabled the <cite>keep</cite> +and <cite>fetchall</cite> option. If you have, turn <cite>keep</cite> off.<p> + +This can also happen when some other mail client is logged in to your +mail server, if it uses a simple exclusive-locking scheme (and many, +especially most POP3 servers, do exactly that). Your fetchmail is +able to retrieve the messages, but because the mailbox is write-locked +by the other instance yours can neither mark messages seen or delete them. +The solution is to either (a) wait for the other client to finish, or (b) +terminate it.<p> + <HR> <table width="100%" cellpadding=0><tr> <td width="30%">Back to <a href="index.html">Fetchmail Home Page</a> <td width="30%" align=center>To <a href="/~esr/sitemap.html">Site Map</a> -<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 1999/12/23 18:21:37 $ +<td width="30%" align=right>$Date: 2000/01/09 07:52:09 $ </table> <P><ADDRESS>Eric S. Raymond <A HREF="mailto:esr@thyrsus.com"><esr@snark.thyrsus.com></A></ADDRESS> |