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

[John Kodis]

Hi Gene,

While I'm not Joanne, my first question would be "Have you tried
'fetchmail --all'?"

Happy holidays,

-- John.

On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 11:28:19AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> That is what I've been doing but while I was on the road starting a couple of 
> months ago, I'd apparently left a fwd stanza operational at gmail to fwd it 
> to a spam-trap bypassing address at vz.
> 
> Unforch, vz has their own private version of a spam filter bouncer that, in 
> the last couple of months, managed to leave about 4500 msgs at gmail.  And 
> they won't admit its even there!
> 
> I called vz and lawyered up on them based on Common Carrier FCC rules, and the 
> filter got shut down about 10 minutes later, which is good, but the incoming 
> headers still said it was being transported thru vz.  So I logged into gmail 
> with FF for the first time in several months and found the fwd kit.  I don't 
> recall doing it, but the info was correct so I must have.  Hello CRS? :(
> 
> 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?
> 
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