Re: movemail --keep-messages --uidl download the same message

Sergey Poznyakoff <[email protected]> Wed, 18 Nov 2020 20:10:16 +0200

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

Hi,

> I have three the same messages in ~/mails file.  The second part of
> X-UIDL value is different for each message.  Maybe that is the issue.

Exactly.  That's what I warned about in

  https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg01917.html

To quote:

  "some servers (most notably gmail) change UIDL after retrieving the
  message, which makes the --uidl option useless."

Regards,
Sergey