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

[Les Mikesell]

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?

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com