Er, sorry, that was unclear. It doesn't expire, but any mail found no
longer to be in the account should be removed from the cache, so if
you delete the mail with another program fdm should remove it from the
cache.
2009/4/22 Nicholas Marriott <nicholas.marri...@gmail.com>:
> The cache doesn't expire, otherwise it would refetch mail.
>
> I should really convert this and the NNTP cache to reuse the generic
> cache code which does support expiry.
>
> 2009/4/22 Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com>:
>> On Wednesday 22 Apr 2009 23:17:56 Nicholas Marriott wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> Yes, the bug report was for that part of the problem itself. I have new-only
>> defined in my settings, but still it downloaded the same emails again..
>>
>> here's my settings:
>> account "company-pop3" disabled pop3
>> server "company.hostname.com"
>> user "rrs"
>> pass "password"
>> new-only cache "${base}/company-cache"
>> keep
>>
>> "keep" was the only new keyword I added today. Otherwise everything was
>> there before. But still it re-downloaded messages. I am going to test it
>> again tomorrow to confirm the behavior.
>>
>> BTW, does the cache expire ever ?
>>
>> Ritesh
>> --
>> Ritesh Raj Sarraf
>> RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
>> "Necessity is the mother of invention."
>>
>>
>
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