fetchmail, postfix, cyrus imap folder

[torgan]

>>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 ?
>>    
>>
>
>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 thats right my folder would get an overflow. But how does cyrus 
remember that ? Can i manipulate the Databases cyrus made in the folder 
so that it would be possible to deliver a mail again ?


Torgan
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