fdm doesn't keep track of mail it has seen unless you tell it to. Due to limitations in POP3 it requires a separate cache file (IMAP does not require one). Look for new-only and old-only in the manual, IIRC they have been there since about 1.4... I've been slacking on fdm recently so they certainly haven't been added after the latest release.
As ft says you can use keep to tell fdm not to delete the mail after it has been fetched, but it will of course fetch it again next time unless you use new-only. 2009/4/22 Frank Terbeck <f...@bewatermyfriend.org>: > Ccing the fdm-users mailing list, for additional input on the 'only' > option, which I have no real experience with; and maybe inside about a > possible new upstream release. > > Please reply to all addresses in To: and Cc: in order to keep all > involved parties and the debian BTS in the loop. > > > Here is the conversation on debian bug #525121 so far: > > Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com>: >> My email account is on an exchange server that I access through >> IMAP. I also download a copy of the emails from the exachange server >> using POP3, for backup purpose. >> >> With fdm, when I pull the emails through POP3, it downloads emails, >> and then deletes them on the server. > > You can always use the 'keep' option to accounts or the action of the > same name for individual rules. > >> I somehow was able to restore my inbox folder on the exchange >> server. >> But then, on next fetch, it again attempts to download all the >> messages that it already had downloaded previously. >> Shouldn't fdm be keeping track of already downloaded messages? > > In fdm's CVS version (not yet released), there is an option called > 'only', which can do what you're looking for, AFAICS. > > I would have to investigate if it is possible to backport that feature > to the 1.6 package, which is available. Otherwise the only options > here are waiting for upstream to do a new stable release or packaging > a CVS snapshot. I'd be very much in favour of an upstream release > here. > >> And how do I tell fdm to leave a copy of the message that it is >> downloading ? > > As mentioned above the 'keep' keyword in various places can do what > you are looking for. See the fdm.conf(5) manpage for this. > > Regards, Frank > > -- > In protocol design, perfection has been reached not when there is > nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. > -- RFC 1925 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Stay on top of everything new and different, both inside and > around Java (TM) technology - register by April 22, and save > $200 on the JavaOne (SM) conference, June 2-5, 2009, San Francisco. > 300 plus technical and hands-on sessions. Register today. > Use priority code J9JMT32. http://p.sf.net/sfu/p > _______________________________________________ > fdm-users mailing list > fdm-us...@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fdm-users > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
