[fetchmail-users] Can fetchmail be configured to do this?

[rouble <ro...@gm...>]

Hi All,

I am trying to see if it is possible to configure fetchmail(rc) to do
the following:

I have a email server that supports imap and pop3. I use various
clients to check that email over imap. I mainly have two folders that
need to be checked Inbox and Sent.

Now, I want to also maintain a running backup of all the email. That
is, I want to download _one_ copy of each email (from both folders)
from the server.

Since I view this email with other imap clients, I can not depend on
the read/unread (seen/unseen) status of the mail that is used by imap.
Using fetchmail with imap does not fetch messages that have already
been seen. So this won't work for a backup.

So, I decided to use the client side UID list supported by pop3. I
used the --uidl, --keep and --idfile options of fetchmail over pop3.
This worked great for backing up the Inbox, but it turns out that
fetchmail's pop3 support does not support folders. So, I can not
backup the Sent folder.

In short, with imap I can't have a client side list of seen emails
(--uidl), so I can't backup all the emails. And with pop3, I can't
download mails from other folders (--folder). So, I don't really know
how to do this.

Any input is much appreciated.

tia,
rouble