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

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 24 December 2007, Les Mikesell wrote:
>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?
>
Cuz then I'd have to read lkml from firefox, whereas everything is now handled 
by kmail.  Habits are hard to break.

Have a very Merry Christmas, Les & thanks.

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