[wplug] fetchmail problem with POP3 from verizon.net

Eric C. Cooper ecc at cmu.edu
Tue Sep 21 14:07:10 EDT 2004


On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 10:59:06AM -0400, William Powell wrote:
> [...] However, with the verizon account, fetchmail doesn't seem to
> recognize that a message has already been retrieved and retrieves it
> again, and again, and again, ad nauseum.

The fetchmail man page discusses possible causes for this, under
"RETRIEVAL FAILURE MODES".  Unfortunately, the only solution given is
to switch to IMAP.

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Eric C. Cooper          e c c @ c m u . e d u


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