Avoiding duplicate messages

Norman Walsh <[email protected]> Fri, 28 Sep 2018 11:02:46 -0500

Newsgroups	gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

Hello,

I just switched to getmail a few days ago, so please forgive me if
this is documented somewhere and I just missed it. I suspect, rather,
that what I want to do isn’t possible, but I figured I’d ask.

I like the fact that getmail will download all the mail that it hasn’t
seen, even if I’ve “read” it on a mobile device. This is precisely the
behavior that I want.

But it appears that moving mail between folders causes them to appear
to be unseen. For example:

1. Message appears in INBOX.
2. It gets downloaded by getmail.
3. I look at it online and move it to a different folder.
4. It gets downloaded again by getmail because, I assume, it wasn’t
   previously seen in that folder.

My less-than-entirely-satisfactory workaround is to *not* have getmail
retrieve messages from the folder that I moved the message into.

This is fine, except now if I move it to that folder *before* it gets
downloaded in the first place, it never gets downloaded, which is,
from my point of view, also bad.

Assuming my description is clear, is there a better solution?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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