Re: beginner questions

[email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:
> Is there a way to use it on Windows without Cygwin? A few modules are
> missing and I couldn't get it to work.

I don't have any Windows machines to check, so I'm not certain, but I would
have thought it would work with the Windows-native Python.  I don't recall
using any Unix-only modules in getmail.

What missing modules and error messages do you get on Windows?

> is this possible with Getmail:
> After or before retrieving messages from an IMAP-server, delete messages
> from server that match a condition (sender/subject/...) or a combination of
> them?

Not directly; getmail doesn't do that.  Regarding message deletion on the
server there are four options:

    o never delete messages from the server
    o delete messages from the server immediately after successfully
        delivering them locally
    o delete messages from the server X days after successfully
        delivering them locally
    o only delete messages bigger than a certain size after successfully
        delivering them locally

The last two can be combined.

Suggestion: use your mail provider's filtering/sorting mechanism to sort your
messages based on sender/subject/etc into different folders.  Then you can
configure getmail to retrieve messages from folder A and leave them on the
server, while retrieving messages from folder B and deleting them from the
server afterwards.

Charles
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