Re: delete command

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
mick crane <[email protected]> wrote:
> there is some sort of problem suddenly happened error when getmail hands
> over to dovecot deliver and it reports error which stops getmail sending
> delete command I guess

Yes.  If your MDA (delivery program) fails, getmail doesn't tell the server to
delete the message, so it can try again next time.  If it did delete the
message, you would lose mail.

> Is not getmail problem but until I sort it is there a direct getmail command
> just to delete emails off server ?

No.  There's no way to just delete messages with getmail.  I usually recommend
people use their provider's webmail interface, or an IMAP MUA, to go in and
delete particular messages.  If you don't want to do that, just retrieve them
as normal and delete the duplicates (if the previous retrieval failed but not
until after it had actually been delivered...) by hand.

Charles
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