On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:13:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Monday 24 December 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
> >On 24/12/2007, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> On Monday 24 December 2007, John Kodis wrote:
> >> >Hi Gene,
> >> >
> >> >While I'm not Joanne, my first question would be "Have you tried
> >> >'fetchmail --all'?"
> >>
> >> Humm, good Q. Its launched at boot time by this line in rc.local:
> >> su gene -c "fetchmail -d 90 --fetchmailrc /home/gene/.fetchmailrc"
> >> .fetchmailrc looks benign wrt that option. It normally just sucks what is
> >> there and unread. It will all be unread cuz I don't use the webmail
> >> interface.
> >
> >If you poll via POP3, downloaded messages are marked as read until
> >they flushed (=deleted) unless you tell fetchmail to --keep them. In
> >case of an error, they are not flushed, but still marked as read. You
> >need fetchmail --all then.
> >
> >If you know there are thousands of messages on the server and
> >fetchmail is interrupted frequently, set the --fetchlimit parameter to
> >the max.number of messages to download in one run.
>
> You folks are better than the manpages! You write in english. :)
>
> Thanks. And you and yours have a very Merry Christmas.
>
Give this a try.
~/.fetchmailrc
set logfile /home/vikram/.fetchmail.log
set daemon 900
poll pop.gmail.com
#poll imap.gmail.com
proto pop3
#proto imap
port 995
#port 993
# timeout 100
user "something@xxxxxxxxx"
pass "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
is gene
no keep
fetchall
#expunge 50
expunge 25
flush
ssl
--
vikram...
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^^'''''^^||root||^^^'''''''^^
// \\ ))
//(( \\// \\
// /\\ || \\
|| / )) (( \\
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