[fetchmail-users] 2 Fetchmail Questions

[Andrew <and...@gm...>]

Hi,

 I am in the process of setting up ssmtp / mutt / fetchmail and
procmail to read and send email using gmail as a relay. Version of
fetchmail is  6.3.8+SSL+NLS (compiled with ssl support. Can I ask a
few questions about the test run below:

andrew@ilium:~$ fetchmail -v
fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Thu 21 Jun
2007 13:35:01 EST: poll started
Trying to connect to 72.14.253.109/995...connected.
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Equifax
fetchmail: Unknown Issuer CommonName
fetchmail: Server CommonName: pop.gmail.com
fetchmail: pop.gmail.com key fingerprint:
59:51:61[.....]5:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4
fetchmail: pop.gmail.com fingerprints match.
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Gpop ready for requests from 210.10.170.80 y25pf2111901pod
fetchmail: POP3> CAPA
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Capability list follows
fetchmail: POP3< USER
fetchmail: POP3< RESP-CODES
fetchmail: POP3< EXPIRE 0
fetchmail: POP3< LOGIN-DELAY 300
fetchmail: POP3< X-GOOGLE-VERHOEVEN
fetchmail: POP3< UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< .
fetchmail: POP3> USER an[.........]@gmail.com
fetchmail: POP3< +OK send PASS
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Welcome.
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 544
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Not supported
fetchmail: Not supported
fetchmail: POP3> UIDL
fetchmail: POP3< +OK
fetchmail: POP3< 1 GmailId1134c589ccc5e979
fetchmail: POP3< .
1 message for andan[.........]@gma...@gm... at pop.gmail.com
(544 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 544
fetchmail: POP3> TOP 1 99999999
fetchmail: POP3< +OK message follows
reading message
aan[.........]@gma...@gm...@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 of 1 (544
octets)
#***** flushed
fetchmail: POP3> DELE 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK marked for deletion
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Farewell.
fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Thu 21 Jun
2007 13:35:04 EST: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 0

1. It looks to me as if I have achieved an ssl connection. Is this true?
2. I don't understand the error message in the middle:

fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 544
fetchmail: POP3> LAST
fetchmail: POP3< -ERR Not supported
fetchmail: Not supported

 Is this something I should be addressing?

3. I don't understand 'flushing'? I have set fetchmail to _not_ keep
messages which activates this message but the messages remain on the
gmail server. I suspect that this is a noob question :-)

      Thanks for your trouble,

              Andrew


-- 
Andrew
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/dapper.html