Hi Gene, While I'm not Joanne, my first question would be "Have you tried 'fetchmail --all'?" Happy holidays, -- John. On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:28:19AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: > Greetings; > > That is what I've been doing but while I was on the road starting a couple of > months ago, I'd apparently left a fwd stanza operational at gmail to fwd it > to a spam-trap bypassing address at vz. > > Unforch, vz has their own private version of a spam filter bouncer that, in > the last couple of months, managed to leave about 4500 msgs at gmail. And > they won't admit its even there! > > I called vz and lawyered up on them based on Common Carrier FCC rules, and the > filter got shut down about 10 minutes later, which is good, but the incoming > headers still said it was being transported thru vz. So I logged into gmail > with FF for the first time in several months and found the fwd kit. I don't > recall doing it, but the info was correct so I must have. Hello CRS? :( > > So I killed the fwd kit at gmail and moved all the bounced stuff back to the > inbox, figuring fetchmail would suck it and that would be the end of it. 4 > things though, 90% of them are dups by the time they get sorted here, and > fetchmail is reporting about an 85% failure to flush rate in the early part > of the waiting msgs it processes in each new daemon wakeup. Toss in that > right now, webmail says there's about 3350 messages left to suck after around > 19 hours (with two power failures here of about 9 hours total duration), but > when I set the verbosity up on fetchmail, it is only getting a much smaller > number between 800 and 1300 for a msg count from gmail, and this number is > refreshed to a new value when it sucks the last of the currently being > processed list. Oh, 4th, did I mention its slower than molasses, probably > because of spamc here. > > Is this "number of messages waiting" discrepancy mainly the disconnect between > the webmail interface, and the pop interface at gmail, or do we actually have > a fetchmail bug here? > > -- > Cheers, Gene > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > Now my EMOTIONAL RESOURCES are heavily committed to 23% of the SMELTING > and REFINING industry of the state of NEVADA!! > > -- > fedora-list mailing list > fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx > To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list -- John Kodis Goddard Space Flight Center kodis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Greenbelt, Maryland, USA Phone: 301-286-7376 Fax: 301-286-1771
