fetchmail, postfix, cyrus imap folder

[torgan]

Am 18.11.2004 08:18 schrieb torgan:

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>>> Hi,
>>> i got a problem with a cyrus, postfix, fetchmail configuration on my
>>> server.
>>> Well the story is simple and maybe the answer, too.
>>> I´m using following configuration and i hope i don´t forget anything.
>>> I got postfix 2.0  installed, with cyrus imap 2 on a freebsd 4.10 
>>> system.
>>> The simpliest thing i want to do is fetchmail from my isp mails and put
>>> it to my cyrus imap folder.
>>> And it works, but now comes my question:
>>> When i do fetchmail first time my isp mailserver the mails will be
>>> delivered to my cyrus imap folder.
>>> So long everything is oki, but sometimes i´m a stupid boy a delete some
>>> mails in the imap folder that after a week or so i want to read again.
>>> I was so smart to not let fetchmail delete my mails (keep) and than
>>> comes it the way i can´t explain to myself.
>>> When i do a second fetchmail to the isp server the old mails i´ve
>>> already delete in the cyrus imap folder will not be saved again ???
>>> Y that ?
>>> Is there something i don´t get into my mind or is this the way cyrus
>>> handles the imap folder ?  Deleted mails will never come through cyrus
>>> to my imap folder again ???
>>>
>>> Can somebody explain it to me or give me just a hint to an RFC where i
>>> can find the answer ?
>>>   
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>> No RFC needed here. Just think what would happen if every mail was 
>> fetched
>> again by fetchmail if you delete it from you INBOX or move it aways from
>> there, maybe to a shared folder or a subfolder of your own. It doesn't
>> matter what you do with a mail after it has been delivered to a mailbox,
>> it just matters whether it already _has_ been delivered to a mailbox.
>>
>> HTH
>> Simon
>>
Oki, well i get it. I found how to make cyrus write my Logs. And now the 
world is getting a little bit more clear.

Cyrus marks the mails it already gets with an database mark and 
eliminates those one that tried to get through to the imap folder.


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