Hello Curtis, > I don't think everyone is fully appreciating the problem. That makes 2 of us ;)
What comes to my mind: a. (has been mentioned) use fetchmail to download the messages. Example listing here: # fetchmail -d0 -a -f /etc/fetchmailrc 4 messages for myname at my.provider.com (45939 octets). reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:1 of 4 (3771 octets) ... flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:2 of 4 (4358 octets) .... flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:3 of 4 (3989 octets) ... flushed reading message [EMAIL PROTECTED]:4 of 4 (33821 octets) ................................. flushed So yes, messages are being marked for deletion (="flushed") immediately after download. Since I don't have a shaky line, I cannot really test things like killing the line in the middle of a transfer and retry. But it seems to me worth a try. b. From old messaging days I remember that sendmail (and almost certainly any other mail-transfer-agent) will of course retransmit the message if the line is broken during transmit. But this means that the vessel system has an ip address and messages are delivered to a local MTA there. Probably not the right direction. With IMAP I have not much experience. Cheers, Erich -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]