clamassassin with call to clamav software corrupts mail messages

[Ow Mun Heng]

On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 23:16, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Ow Mun Heng writes:
> 
> > On Sun, 2004-11-21 at 22:02, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> >> Jeff Vian writes:
> >> 
> >> > IMAP and POP3 do not actually do a delete on the server when a session
> >> > is still in progress.  Having fetchmail terminate the session and start
> >> > a new one will trigger the delete on the server for those messages you
> >> > already have seen.
> >> 
> >> No it won't.
> > 
> > Yes it will
> > 
> > [snip from man fetchmail]
> >  -e <count> | --expunge <count>
> 
> Fetchmail is not a specification of the IMAP or the POP3 protocol.

And your point being to the comment by Jeff Ivian is...?

All I'm saying is, fetchmail performs the pop3/imap session. Whether or
not it follows the RFC, I have no idea. 

But if the link is unreliable, you can instruct fetchmail to
destroy/close the session after X messages, and expunge those X messages
before restarting.

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Ow Mun Heng
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