From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: rmail produces mail duplicates when rmail-preserve-inbox is t
Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 18:06:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83r4as5h84.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <527B91C7.6030002@poczta.onet.pl>
> Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2013 14:12:39 +0100
> From: Jarek Czekalski <jarekczek@poczta.onet.pl>
>
> What I try to do is reading emails taken from POP3 server using Emacs,
> while not removing messages from server. I found a related Info section:
>
> If `rmail-preserve-inbox' is non-`nil', then Rmail does not
> clear out the inbox file when it gets new mail. You may wish to set
> this, for example, on a portable computer you use to check your mail
> via POP while traveling, so that your mail will remain on the server
> and you can save it later on your workstation.
>
> Unfortunately now every time I press "g" (rmail-summary-get-new-mail) I
> get duplicates of the messages I already downloaded. Pop3 clients don't
> work this way.
>
> Am I missing something or does Emacs?
You are not missing anything, Rmail simply doesn't know how to track
the last message seen from a given inbox. Patches to add that are
welcome.
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2013-11-07 13:12 rmail produces mail duplicates when rmail-preserve-inbox is t Jarek Czekalski
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