Re: How to download read messages?

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Pete <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a little homeserver with dovecot, postfix and getmail.
> I want getmail to download all messages (read & unread) to my server.

I'll stop you there.  getmail has no idea whether messages have been read or
not; it only keeps track of whether *getmail* has seen a particular message
before or not.

> The option "read_all" seems not to be what I'm looking for

You want read_all set to false.  When you run getmail, it will download any
messages that getmail has not seen before.  It doesn't even ask the server if
the server thinks the message has been read or not.

Charles
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