Receive email, filtering

Charles Cazabon charlesc-lists-mutt-users at pyropus.ca
Mon Feb 21 15:00:47 UTC 2022


Piet <plist at posteo.eu> wrote:
> 
> It seems, that fetchmail  receives emails from imap, but only in two
> ways which can not be combined:
[...]
> Getmail seems to work similar to fetchmail.

> Is there the opportunity to fetch and filter email without deleting it in
> the external imap account?

As the author of getmail, I can assure you that getmail is capable of
retrieving mail and not deleting it from the server afterwards; it's explained
in the docs.

As much as I detest fetchmail, it virtually certainly can also do this.

Charles
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