Need a fetchmail guru (JoAnne D.?) who's been using it to pop his/her gmail
Gene Heskett
gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 25 03:53:23 UTC 2007
On Monday 24 December 2007, Vikram Goyal wrote:
>On Mon, Dec 24, 2007 at 06:13:02PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Monday 24 December 2007, Michael Schwendt wrote:
>> >On 24/12/2007, Gene Heskett <gene.heskett at verizon.net> 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.
>
>Give this a try.
>
>~/.fetchmailrc
>
>set logfile /home/vikram/.fetchmail.log
>set daemon 900
>
>poll pop.gmail.com
>#poll imap.gmail.com
> proto pop3
> #proto imap
> port 995
> #port 993
># timeout 100
> user "something at gmail.com"
> pass "XXXXXXXXXXXX"
> is gene
> no keep
> fetchall
> #expunge 50
> expunge 25
> flush
> ssl
>
And this I assume will grab 25 at a pop and pass them off to procmail? I have
this set as the MDA at the top of that file. I have mine set for
defaults mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d gene"
set no bouncemail
set no spambounce
set daemon 90
Then the gmail stanza:
poll pop.gmail.com with proto pop3
user ZZZZZZZZZZ with password XXXXXXXXXXX is gene
options ssl
and no port # is spec'd. Is not the default ssl port # 995?
I'll fix it up and restart fetchmail for grins, thanks Vikram & Merry
Christmas to you and yours.
--
Cheers, Gene
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