Re: making fetchmail delete a successfully downloaded email from dovecot

On Sunday 11 October 2020 08:10:37 Carlos E. R. wrote:

> On 11/10/2020 14.03, Gene Heskett wrote:
> > Greetings all;
> >
> > I just spent slightly over an hour deleting old email from my ISP
> > mail server 100 at a time, about 8 months worth and over 30,000
> > msgs.
> >
> > Shentel.net does not allow fetchmail to delete a downloaded email
> > because their dovecot server handles imap and pop3 from the same
> > directory and somebody might want to come in from imap.
>
> I don't understand this.
>
> What I would do, is log it to the imap server with any mail client
> (say mutt, Alpine, Thunderbird), select all the messages and "click"
> delete.
>
> Surely you can also log to that imap-server using fetchmail, too.

I don't think it works when coming in thru its pop.isp-name port 995,
Does fetchmail 6.4.8 even speak imap? 


Cheers, Gene Heskett
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