On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:59 -0500, Paul Harouff wrote: > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 22:43 -0500, Paul Harouff wrote: > > On Mon, 2004-08-23 at 10:52 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > There are two alternatives: > > > 1. don't do this, but then you get duplicate downloads. on a > > > really flakey connection you may never (in a practical sense) get > > > all your mail and get lots of duplicates. > > > 2. delete the old ones always. this assumes we can trust the > > > info, otherwise you could remove non-duplicate mails. > > > > > > I'm leaning toward 2, but it complicates the code a bit. > > > > > The only problem is it looks to me that these mails were never > > downloaded. Of the 22, I read three on the web which I want to save > > by downloading them and archiving. The others I never read. > > Sorry, I should get all my thoughts completed before pressing send. > > Now that we know the possible cause, what do I do now. The messages > are stuck on the server and I want to get them downloaded.
Maybe fetchmail would work. It can be configured to drop the email in /var/mail/$HOME, I think. Run the attached python script, to see if a POP client can see your emails. Usage: python pop_ls.py your.isps.pop.server your.userid your.password -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B "He was about as useful in a crisis as a sheep." Dorothy Eden
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