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

It turns out that if getmail is passing along the emails to an MTA and the
MTA --in my case procmail-- writes to std err then getmail will not delete
the messages. I had an innocuous error in my procmail recipe that was
writing to std err.  Once I corrected it getmail began deleting the messages
after they were downloaded.

2011/1/25 <[email protected]>

> > Thanks for the reply Tom. I tried your idea but getmail is still not
> > deleting the new messages.  If anyone has any ideas I would really
> > appreciate it as I am at a dead end.
>
> > Thanks,
>
> > Richard
>
> I still think it might be a server fault that they haven't fixed.
>
> Have you tried downloading the messages with something other than getmail?
>
> Maybe mpop (http://mpop.sourceforge.net/)?
>
> I recently built mpop and msmtp for NetBSD from pkgsrc; also for FreeBSD
> from the ports collection, would like to try these out.
>
>
> Tom
>
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