Re: [fetchmail-users] 2 Fetchmail Questions

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

On 6/21/07, Andrew <and...@gm...> wrote:
> 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
>
> 1. It looks to me as if I have achieved an ssl connection. Is this true?

Yes

> 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?

No, the error is from GMail and says that GMail's POP3 service doesn't
support the LAST command.

> 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 :-)

GMail's POP3 access works a little oddly that way - you configure your
choice in GMail and that overrides any settings you make to your POP3
client.  You've probably got yours at the default still.  Try changing
it to either archive or delete.

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