Re: Need a fetchmail guru (JoAnne D.?) who's been using it to pop his/her gmail

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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.

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