rsanjiv Posted March 30, 2004 Report Share Posted March 30, 2004 Hi, I am unable to configure mutt such that it does not retrieve old messages from my pop server. By old, I mean messages that I have already retrieved once. As a result, everytime I am having multiple copies of the messages in my inbox which I am deleting manually. Is there any option in fetchmail that I am missing ? Regards, Sanjiv Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crashdamage Posted April 3, 2004 Report Share Posted April 3, 2004 From your message, I take it you're using fetchmail instead of Mutt's built-in POP retrival capabilities. This is what I do, to feed mail to procmail for processing by SpamAssassin, but I've never had trouble with duplicate mails. Anyway, If you use fetchmail, you must have entries for fetchmail somewhere in your muttrc. Check there, see if Mutt calls fetchmail using the '-k' (keep) option. If so, delete it. If not or if removing '-k' doesn't cure the problem, try adding the '-F' (flush) or '-K' (nokeep) options to fetchmail. That helps with some stubborn mailservers. See 'man fetchmail' for more details. If you *are* using Mutt only, without fetchmail to do retreivals, check to see if you have entries similar to these in your muttrc: # Set deletion of messages after transfer from server. # Default: off. # set pop_delete=on # This sets read to the last message: set pop_last Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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