Rajesh Fowkar saw fit to inform LI that:
>Thanks suresh for the link of poppy. It looked to me to be a great script
>to allow
I have not tested it extensively - fetchmail works quite ok for me.
><snip>
>[Msg 11 of 118] |=pipe !=shell [V]iew, [T]op, [D]elete, [S]ave, [N]ext, [G]o,
>[A]bort, [Q]uit, or [H]elp:q
>Do you really want to delete the messages [y/N]? y
>Disconnecting...An error occurred: Overquota copying messages to Mailspool. Temp
>drop unchanged (49) Resetting.
>rajesh@rajesh:~ >
I really dont know - looks like you have a full mailbox on your vsnl
server or that one mail is corrupt.
> One more thing happened was that. Out of 118 messages, after downloading
> 98 messages fetchmail >suddenly terminated(crashed) and than when I
> again tried to download mails instead of remaining >messages it started
> downloading from 1st message. What could have happened to fetchmail. Why
> are the mails not getting deleted from the server when fetchmail
> displays flushed for each message ?
This is a feature, not a bug. What happens in the background (try using
fetchmail -v and see for yourself) is:
~$ telnet goa1.dot.net.in 110
>>> [banner] goa1.dot.net.in ready
<<< user rfowkar
>>> user ok, enter pass
<<< pass your_password
now you start deleting / fetching messages
<<< RETR 1
..... fetches the message
<<< DELE 1
..... flags the message as deleted
... and so on till the last message is reached.
When you sign off using the QUIT command, all the deleted messages are
finally expunged from your server.
--
Suresh Ramasubramanian + [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On a clear disk you can seek forever.
-- P. Denning
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