On Tue, Dec 20, 2011 at 10:05:57PM +0000, Walter Hurry wrote: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote: > >> On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote: > >> > >> > How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't > >> > it! > >> > How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. > >> > >> This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc > >> > >> poll pop.googlemail.com proto pop3 service 995 user > >> justforme password something_longish ssl > > > > Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the > > username must always be your complete e-mail address. > > > Yep. Mine looks like: > > poll imap.gmail.com protocol imap tracepolls: > user 'walterhu...@gmail.com', with password '<hidden>', is walter here > options ssl > > Obviously OP would need to change the server being polled to the POP3 > one, as well as the protocol (though the reason why people want to use > POP3 when IMAP is available escapes me). > >
I had problems with fetchmail and gmail pop3. emails would start being missed after undeleted emails hit about 600. By 1000 undeleted emails, nothing was being downloaded. I don't remember if emails were being marked. Fixed it by changing to IMAP. -- Regards, Freeman "Microsoft is not the answer. Microsoft is the question. NO (or Linux) is the answer." --Somebody -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20111224234107.GA14101@Deneb.office
