Hi, >> It's been some time since I've used fetchmail, but I'm trying to >> configure it again to backup my gmail account, and I can't figure out >> where it's stored my downloaded mail. I'm using fedora20 and the >> latest version of fetchmail. >> >> I'm first trying to get it to download a single message from Trash as a test: >> >> $ cat .fetchmailrc >> poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP >> user "mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx" is alex here >> password 'mypass123' >> folder 'Trash' >> fetchlimit 1 >> keep >> ssl >> >> I've configured postfix on my local machine, and removed sendmail. >> Postfix is running. Running "fetchmail -v" shows that it did download >> the message, but I don't know where it put it. It's not in >> /var/spool/mail/alex or anywhere in my home directory. > > fetchmail by default talks to the MTA on port 25. > > If you don't like the default, you could use the "mda" option to point > it at your preferred MDA directly. Note that if you don't deliver your > fetched message to a queue, mail can be lost if there are permission > problems or lack of storage space. Usually, I add > > mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -" > > to ~/.fetchmailrc to deliver to procmail directly (which stores in the > local mailbox even if there are no custom recipes in the .procmailrc). I've just tried this, and it also produces no output. There's nothing in /var/spool/mail and nothing to indicate fetchmail was speaking with postfix in /var/log/maillog. Maybe it's not actually downloading? fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] Trash selected. (Success) [THROTTLED] fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED fetchmail: IMAP< * SEARCH fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK SEARCH completed (Success) [THROTTLED] 1 message (1 seen) for mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx at imap.gmail.com (folder Trash). fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 LOGOUT fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT Requested fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK 73 good day (Success) [THROTTLED] fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Tue 23 Sep 2014 08:08:13 PM EDT: poll completed fetchmail: normal termination, status 1 Is the connection always throttled? It also says "1 seen", but does that mean it downloaded it? Thanks, Alex -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
