Re: getmail with davmail

Graham Denham <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> > I thought that when they disabled password auth they introduced a
> > replacement for it - maybe called "app passwords" or "app keys" or
> > something like that?
> 
> I think Microsoft allows this option, but unfortunately my site
> administrators do not.  The logic being, who wouldn’t want to use Outlook?
> :-)  

Egads.  Try to have your boss remind the administrators that they're there to
serve their users' needs, not make arbitrary choices that make the workers'
jobs harder.

> > Crank up the verbosity level with --trace and see what UID is logged on
> > the two retrievals of the same message.
> 
> Thanks, after looking through the full trace, it seems that this is what’s
> happening.  E.g., getmail fetched a new message with UID 71371.  A minute
> later, there was no more 71371, but there was a 71372, which getmail
> dutifully received.

That definitely sounds like a bug - or, since it's a Microsoft
email-handling-product, business as usual :)

While I would recommend trying to report this to Microsoft to try to get this
root cause actually fixed, I don't imagine it will be easy or quick to do so.
In the meantime, you might be able to work around the problem using an
external MDA that does content-based message deduplication.  You can plug one
into getmail with MDA_external, or with getmail's filtering capability (where
the filter would exit normally to deliver a message, and with the special
dont-deliver-this-message exit code when it detects a duplicate).

Charles
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