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diff --git a/fetchmail.man b/fetchmail.man index 13a4df11..c0a5f8e8 100644 --- a/fetchmail.man +++ b/fetchmail.man @@ -85,6 +85,10 @@ Specify a non-default name for the .I .fetchmailrc run control file. .TP +.B \-i pathname, --idfile pathname +Specify an alternate name for the .fetchids file used to save POP3 +UIDs. +.TP .B \-k, --keep Keep retrieved messages in folder on remote mailserver. Normally, messages are deleted from the folder on the mailserver after they have been retrieved. @@ -300,13 +304,15 @@ One could be that you're using POP2. The POP2 protocol includes no representation of `new' or `old' state in messages, so \fIfetchmail\fR must treat all messages as new all the time. POP2 is obsolete. .PP -Under POP3, blame RFC1725. That late version of the POP3 protocol -specification ill-advisedly removed the LAST command, and some POP -servers (including the one distributed with at least some versions of -SunOS) follow it (you can verify this by invoking \fIfetchmail -v\fR -to the mail server and watching the response to LAST early in the -query). The fix is to install an older POP3 server with LAST or -(better) switch to an IMAP server. +Under POP3, blame RFC1725. That version of the POP3 protocol +specification removed the LAST command, and some POP servers follow it +(you can verify this by invoking \fIfetchmail -v\fR to the mail server +and watching the response to LAST early in the query). The +\fIfetchmail\fR code tries to compensate by using POP3's UID feature, +storing the identifiers of messages seen in each session until the +next session,in the \fI.fetchids\fR file. But this doesn't track +messages seen with other clients or read but not deleted directly with +a mailer on the host. A better solution would be to switch to IMAP. .PP Another potential POP3 problem might be servers that insert messages in the middle of mailboxes (some VMS implementations of mail are @@ -580,6 +586,11 @@ created by the new SMTP forwarding default. ~/.fetchmailrc default run control file .TP 5 +~/.fetchids +default location of file associating hosts with last message IDs seen +(used only with newer RFC1725-compliant POP3 servers supporting the +UIDL command). +.TP 5 ${TMPDIR}/fetchmail-${HOST}-${USER} lock file to help prevent concurrent runs. .SH ENVIRONMENT |