[tde-users] yuge problem!!

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 -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>