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

Thank you very much Sergey.

Patched release-3.6 movemail correctly retrieves only those files
missing in local mbox.

George


On 03.05.2019 10:53, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote:
> 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
>
>