Re: --uidl keeps downloading the same message over and over again

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.mailutils.bugs
Organization GNU.org.ua
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hi George,

> movemail --keep-messages --uidl --verbose
> --debug-level='mailbox.prot,!trace6'
> pop://my_username%40posteo.net:my_password@posteo,de ~/local.mbox
> 
> Unfortunately, when I run the above command second and third time, the
> local.mbox keep getting all the messages from the pop server.

Thanks for the report. I have pushed the following fix:

  http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/mailutils.git/patch/?id=bf87c2f6634b992252857076a5eadc6d16e9e9df

Please give it a try.

Notice, however, that some servers (most notably gmail) change UIDL
after retrieving the message, which makes the --uidl option useless.
I don't know how posteo.de behaves, though.

Best regards,
Sergey
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