I don't know if this helps but by default thunderbird will just copy them not delete I have to manually delete emails from my account to sync with what I already downloaded to my machine.
On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpope...@gmail.com>wrote: > On Thu,13.Aug.09, 16:17:30, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny). It > > will help if someone could help understand what's going on. > > > > While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800 > > MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching > > 9985 messages. It now keeps saying that there are "549 read messages" > > on the server but clearly, there are many more. > > Did you check that or are you just assuming? I'm asking because from my > experience gmail was *deleting* mails as soon as retrieved via POP3 (but > not via IMAP). > > Regards, > Andrei > -- > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Einstein) > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iQEcBAEBCAAGBQJKiG28AAoJEHNWs3jeoi3pe0IH/1HA5WStNfsCpcVVLmjtZZz/ > /qy4DFTwCnu+jwYWxzriUnfv54P8y6YCHEhuzcX6htD/anUVtTpuZwgkLR+Ph8ul > Gdz34DtBNKngqBvDK4y62suHKYR9D6bIiMllGzkzkgryGaAbCqCw65aj+nz200rq > QXyP2Cln+mudFtA9F6WWtLsI0em0A58laI/+MpVaBTwD8jOVVvcAZf/zqnlrbMcd > Ws4VDIwOfY2qgIK4gpA0ItLmJ/NbeFa1OzrTZpbUrUVsPGu4Z9n+beiWaMdAtQG2 > eYVTvfNH+cNhE3BVMFbGkB8fdMW7Kcub9QExYXe/1rlylfaODdGuVCpQJZgTLHk= > =uDzb > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > >
