Re: [fetchmail-users] fetchmail exis status 1 - Only few emails are getting retrieved.

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

On 9/17/07, Dilip M <dil...@gm...> wrote:
>
> I agree! Sorry of that :( But I couldn't wait for to get my fetchmail working!

Frankly, tough.  An approach like that will quite probably result in
those that can help just ignoring you in future, in the theory that
you may be making up log entries then too.

> Should be. Some problem at gmail end, since they say they will allow
> email in batches for retrieval, if there is many emails!

Nothing fetchmail can do to help you.  As I said, if GMail only
reports 712 emails, all of which fetchmail has downloaded, what do you
expect fetchmail to be able to do?  It doesn't come with a crystal
ball or magic "--control-google" command line option.

> -- Finally the Correct log  --
>
> fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Monday 17
> September 2007 10:28:15 PM IST: poll started
> Trying to connect to 209.85.147.109/995...connected.
<---SNIP--->
> .
> fetchmail: 759 is unseen
> fetchmail: POP3< .
> 759 messages (197 seen) for dil...@gm... at pop.gmail.com
> (4319113 octets).
> skipping message dil...@gm...@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1 not flushed
> skipping message dil...@gm...@gmail-pop.l.google.com:2 not flushed
> .
> .
> fetchmail: fetchlimit 5 reached; 754 messages left on server
> gmail-pop.l.google.com account dil...@gm...
> fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
> fetchmail: POP3< +OK Farewell.
> fetchmail: 6.3.8 querying pop.gmail.com (protocol POP3) at Monday 17
> September 2007 10:28:29 PM IST: poll completed
> fetchmail: swapping UID lists
> fetchmail: Query status=13 (MAXFETCH)
> fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.
> fetchmail: normal termination, status 13
> fetchmail: Writing fetchids file.

Care to restate your problem?  You've configured fetchmail to download
the emails in batches of 5 per run and you have 754 emails remaining.
It will take 151 runs to completely download the existing emails that
GMail reported at that point.  Why not remove the fetchlimit option?

It would help to see your .fetchmailrc file if you want further help.

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