[lug] Pine-- delete from server.

John Starkey jstarkey at polaris.umuc.edu
Tue Apr 11 11:57:18 MDT 2000


Thanks for the replies. I had the 'keep' option set up in .fetchmailrc. (as
Ken stated)

I set it that way about 2 weeks ago when I initially set up fetchmail (for my
first time) so that I wouldn't miss anything.

Thanks again.

John

Wayde Allen wrote:

> On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, John Starkey wrote:
>
> > I have pine set up to retrieve (thru fetchmail) from a pop server. I had
> > to d-load using my iMac today and found out that Pine isn't deleting the
> > messages it d-loads. I've been through the options several times and
> > haven't seen the option. Is this a fetchmail thing???
> >
> > Can someone help??
>
> Pine doesn't download the messages, and has nothing to do with deleting
> the messages on the pop server.  Pine just reads the mail delivered to it.
> It is the fetchmail program that you need to look at.  There are serveral
> options that can be set in your .fetchmailrc file that determines how
> fetchmail handles the mail on the remote pop machine.
>
> - Wayde
>   (wallen at boulder.nist.gov)
>
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