Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail not fetching new messages

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 5/18/07, Wade Smart <wa...@wa...> wrote:
> 05172007 1850 GMT-6 DST
>
> On May 10th for some reason fetchmail stopped fetching most of the
> messages from my gmail account. It fetches some of the mail but not all.
> I dont read my gmail on the gmail server so its not showing as read.
>
> I had about 3400 messages in my gmail account but it said it has seen
> 893 of them and there are none new. So I deleted all but the newest
> ones. That left 416. Now it says it sees 1046 but none are new.
>
> This has only happened since May 10th. I looked in my system log but saw
> nothing that would indicate to me why this is happening.

Well, it's unlikely to be something related to fetchmail I'm afraid.

> Below is my rc file.
>
> # setup second email service provider -> Gmail
>         poll pop.gmail.com
>         uidl
>         proto pop3
>         port 995
>         auth password
>         user "wad...@gm..." there with password "pass" is "wadesmart"
> here
>         keep
>         no fetchall
>         ssl sslcertpath /etc/ssl/certs

All that looks fine.  Can you confirm that you're on 6.3.8 and then
provide the output of "fetchmail --nosyslog --nodetach -vvv -c".

I don't expect to find anything, as I suspect the problem is at GMail,
but it's worth a go :)

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