Bill, thanks for the proposal. I'll answer as upstream maintainer. The
former fetchmail maintainer, Eric S. Raymond, years go, decided against
this feature ("do one job well"), but I am open to it.
Technically however I need to change the .fetchids format, so this is
release 7.0 business, meaning many months out.
Please re-file this feature request (without the privacy "reason") as
new issue here: https://gitlab.com/fetchmail/fetchmail/-/issues and then
reference it from this launchpad request.
Notes: The use case of truncating history is also valid for me, OTOH you
don't know whether your mail service provider will just put a delete
mark on your mail and hide it from your view without actually erasing
it, or for some legislations is under some secret surveillance order and
blind carbon copies the prosecutor or intelligence, so there is no
privacy gain.
For real privacy, e-mail is likely a lost cause and even if you encrypt
end-to-end there's a truckload of metadata available to everyone.
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