How Fetchmail made me a spammer

[Dan Langille]

Programmer In Training wrote:
> On 1/14/2010 6:07 AM, Dag-Erling Smørgrav wrote:
> <snip>
>> None of this would have happened if you were using IMAP instead of POP.
>> Unlike POP, IMAP a) provides a way to mark a message as "processed"
>> without deleting it and b) does not renumber messages or reuse message
>> numbers.
>>
>> DES
> 
> A possible solution, but who likes IMAP? 

Many people.

 > I much prefer POP3 and having
> the mail locally (I delete it from the server once it's copied).

Good on you.  But don't go trashing another solution just because you 
don't like it. :)

Damn it.  I fed the troll.  Sorry folks.