fetchmail -k

Greg Kedrovsky greg at iglesia-del-este.com
Sat Jun 14 19:45:34 CDT 2003


I'm using fetchmail to retrieve mail from 3 different pop servers and
store them in my mailspool to be read in Mutt. I would like to retrieve
but not delete my mail for the time being since I am in the process of
switching from Sylpheed to Mutt, and would to get mail in both of those
clients (which, right now, store mail in separate directories).

The manpage for fetchmail says that the default is to fetch only
messages the server has not marked as seen. The -k option will
keep retrieved messages on the remote mailserver. 

My question is, how to I retrieve _only_ unread messages, leaving all on
the server? 

fetchmail -k gets me all of the mail sitting out on my pop servers, read
and unread. And it's a bit of a hassle. 

What have I missed in the manpage?

Thanks.
-Greg

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