[ILUG-BOM] Re: [OT]fetchmail + gmail: How to prevent downloading archived mail

Aparna Appaiah aparna.appaiah@[EMAIL-PROTECTED]
Fri Aug 18 18:02:45 IST 2006


On 8/18/06, Aparna Appaiah <aparna.appaiah at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Dear List,
>
> I use my GMail address to receive all my mails. I use POP to receive
> the mails and a copy of every mail is archived after it is downloaded
> from the server. I use fetchmail to download the messages and Mutt is
> my mailing agent. Sometimes, when I receive a large number of
> messages, I check my mail directly on mail.google.com , that is I read
> the mails and archive them. Now, the next time I use fetchmail to
> download my mails, the mails which I'd read and archived are also
> downloaded. Is there any way to prevent this?
>
> Regards,
> Aparna.
>
> --
> Aparna Appaiah
>

Sorry for not labelling the mail OT!!


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