On Monday 24 December 2007, Les Mikesell wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> 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? > >I've used fetchmail with gmail for a long time without problems but >never let it get too far behind. Gmail is set to 'archive' messages as >they are downloaded via pop so they disappear from the inbox as viewed >by the web interface but are still available for searches. > >But, since gmail now permits imap access, why not go that route instead >of having to download/store the messages yourself? > Cuz then I'd have to read lkml from firefox, whereas everything is now handled by kmail. Habits are hard to break. Have a very Merry Christmas, Les & thanks. -- 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) I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph. -- Shirley Temple
