Re: making fetchmail delete a successfully downloaded email from dovecot

On Sunday 11 October 2020 15:29:02 Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

> On Sun, 11 Oct 2020, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >>>>> 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 cannot talk for your provider, but can tell my experience with
> gsuite (gmail) since my institution moved to it.

Where do I send flowers of sympathy? gmail was broken the 6 months I put 
up with it

It took a wee bit of tinkering & studying of the manpage, but its now 
using imap and successfully expunging what it fetches. So until they 
fill the spam folder up too, I am a happy camper.

> An account of my tests and setup is in
> http://sax.iasf-milano.inaf.it/~lucio/WWW/WhereManWins/gs.html

I'll take a look, thanks for shareing.

Cheers, Gene Heskett
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