Re: getmail not deleting messages after they've been downloaded.

> Not really, but problems like this often point to an issue with the mail server.

> If getmail writes detailed logs (or can with the right flag) then take a look at them. I suspect what is happening is getmail is telling your
> server to delete the messages and your server is not doing it.

This happened to me once recently from the AT&T-Yahoo server, and it happened on a big 148 MB ( where 1 MB means 10 ** 6 bytes) download that took 5 1/2 hours on 6 Mbps DSL connection: should have been much faster but AT&T-Yahoo server tends to be slow.

Subsequently I went into the webmail, set the highest possible number of messages to a page, 200, and deleted 200 at a time without looking them over, since they were already downloaded.  Subsequent getmail downloads did delete the messages from the server.  So it must have been a temporary server glitch, and at the worst time.

Tom