Special Options

These options are occasionally useful for overriding defaults often found in the .fetchmailrc file.

• -a - Fetchmail downloads all messages from the remote email server, whether new or previously viewed. By default, Fetchmail only downloads new messages.

• -k - Fetchmail leaves the messages on the remote email server after downloading them. This option overrides the default behavior of deleting messages after downloading them.
• -l <max-number-bytes> - Fetchmail does not download any messages over a particular size and leaves them on the remote email server.
• --quit - Quits the Fetchmail daemon process.

More commands and .fetchmailrc options can be found in the fetchmail man page.