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
--
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
