Anno domini 2020 Wed, 14 Oct 01:20:13 -0400 Gene Heskett via tde-users scripsit: > Greetings folks; > > I finally figured out how to convert fetchmail into an imap protocol, > needed because shentel.net's dovecot email server ignores fetchmails > expunge of fetched messages, but does allows the imap version to delete > fetched messages. And I spent several hours with a browser deleting 30 > some k of old messages earlier this week. > > but!!!!! > > My ISP is apparently doing a restore from a very old backup, and is > feeding fetchmail nearly 27k old messages dating from about 1 march of > this year that are not being detected by the duplicate removal function > of kmail. > > At the present download rate it will take over a day to catch up to > current messages and a 2T drive will be about used up, and kmails > message counters will overflow screwing with my database long before > that. > > How can I cope with this? I need a script that I can filter this crap > to /dev/null until the timestamp on the incoming message is later than > about 23:30 on 10/13/2020. > > Help! > > Thanks for any rescue. I tried making .fetchmailrc use /dev/null for an > mta but thats a fetchmail killer error. > > Cheers, Gene Heskett you can create a kmail filter that uses regex or a pipes the mail through a script nik -- Please do not email me anything that you are not comfortable also sharing with the NSA, CIA ... ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
