> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 01:39:54 +0800
> From: Charles Jie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: Mutt Mail-list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Possible to get the mail fetched by getmail filtered?
>
> Thanks, Roman.
>
> 1. My getmail.log gives:
>
> Aborting... (command "/usr/bin/maildrop ~/.maildroprc" returned 19200
> (maildrop: signal 0x06))
>
> $getmail gives sth similar:
>
> msg #1 : len 998 ... retrievedfailed to process message list for
> "charlesjie" (command "/usr/bin/maildrop ~/.maildroprc" returned 19200
> (maildrop: signal 0x06))
> Resetting connection and aborting...
>
> 2. My maildrop now looks OK and saves message to given mbox. The problem
> is that getmail doesn't remove message in POP server. I'll get a copy
> of the same message each time I run getmail.
So it works now? Was the problem just the getmail rpm?
As to your question: getmail *does* remove retrieved messages from
the server just fine. I don't know if it's the default behavior, but
you can certainly get it with
delete = 1
in your .getmailrc
>
> 3. getmail also fails to fetch mail if the destination mbox doesn't
> exist. Thus I can not let mutt remove the empty mbox file when all
> messages are deleted.
Yes. This is clearly stated in the docs... Or was it the source?
Anyway, I don't see how this could be a problem given that you
have getmail deliver to maildrop?
> 4. My getmail is 2.1.9, while maildrop is 1.3.4.
> The broken getmail rpm from Mandrake 8.1 is 2.1.5. I'll send it to
> you in another mail. It misses ALL the python modules.
As I already wrote in a separate message, I don't know what good it
is to send rpm files. But let's get over it.
> 7. It takes no hard work to prepare man page but it's a big convenience.
Well, you have to *maintain* it: keep it up to date. And that's
worse.
> Without it, I need to run "$ rpm -ql getmail" to find out the right
> document every time, and then copy and paste to run "less" to check it.
> Do you have a better approach to do it?
> cd /usr/share/doc/getmail-2.1.9 && ls
(or wherever the docs get stored on a Mandrake box)
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