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Re: [bug-mailutils] behaviour of movemail if interrupted...
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Sergey Poznyakoff |
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Re: [bug-mailutils] behaviour of movemail if interrupted... |
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Tue, 12 May 2009 13:42:00 +0300 |
Hi,
> what is the behaviour of movemail trough POP, if the connection is
> interrupted (bad network, SIGTERM, ...)?
When timeout expires it exits without removing already retrieved
messages from the local maildrop. Messages in the remote mailbox
are not deleted, either.
> What happens if one resumes movemail? Will it fetch all files again,
> just the files it has read, or none?
Yes, it will attempt to fetch all files again.
Regards,
Sergey