With debugger I saw this line: "-ERR Unknown command: LAST"; so I think you
were right once again...
So if I wanted this function, or the one of "keep messages in server for x
days", would I need another external POP3 mail fetcher?
I did read in the Mutt wiki that Mutt originally didn't intend to have native
SMTP support, but it ended up (reluctantly?) being added eventually; which is
why I decided to learn Msmtp as well. However, I was unable to find any proof
of this being the same case for IMAP and POP3, and I searched the whole wiki
and docs. So I thought "so unlike SMTP, Mutt has always been supposed to
support IMAP and POP3 natively".
But then, must I understand that this is *not* the case for POP3?
> ---A more general thing: what are Ctrl+O ("open mailbox") and '$' actually
> for?
> On IMAP Ctrl+O is the only one updating the mailboxes; '$' just says "mailbox
> is unchanged" even if there are being new messages at that instant (I have
> tested it), and only does stuff only if there are messages marked for deletion
> On POP3 both Ctrl+O and '$' seem to do nothing at all, and only 'G' downloads
> messages
Could someone still help a bit with this too? I use Ctrl+O because I do use
sidebar; without it I have no idea of how to manually "update/refresh" IMAP
folders...
> ---Finally, on IMAP, different email providers seem to have totally different
> ways to specify their subfolders for the variables $sent, $drafts...:
> "INBOX.sent", "[Gmail]/Sent Mail", etc. Then how am I supposed to find out
> which syntax each email service uses?
So this has really no solution?
Thanks again beofrehand for your attention.
> On 2022-08-30 18:34:42, Kevin J. McCarthy wrote:
> > On Mon, Aug 29, 2022 at 03:14:21PM -0500, X Tec wrote:
> > > Fetching email with 'G' key just ignores the "pop_last=yes" setting
> > > because it always downloads all email regardless of locally read or not,
> > > even though other clients such as Outlook or Thunderbird don't do this
> > > mistake. So I don't think server doesn't support the LAST command...
> >
> > Run with debugging enabled (-d 2) and check the log file to see what the
> > LAST command response is from the server. Since the command was deprecated
> > some time ago, I would venture the server is returning an unknown command
> > error.
> >
> > Mutt's POP3 support *is* simple, so if LAST isn't supported, the behavior
> > you are seeing with <fetch-mail> is expected.
> >
> > You may be happier just directly connecting to a pops:// URL via one of your
> > mailboxes instead; or with a more sophisticated tool, such as Getmail (which
> > Sam mentioned).
> >
> > --
> > Kevin J. McCarthy
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