Re: [fetchmail-devel] [PATCH] how to make fetchmail not to check the mail with seen flag of my gmail?

[Sunil S. <sun...@ro...>]

Hi,
----- Original Message -----

> I think the real issue is not related to IMAP at all. What Yunfan Jiang may be 
> trying to say is that when fetchmail -v runs without syslog, there are too many 
> skipping messages without any real protocol level activity. Note that this is 
> true for both IMAP and POP3. This is also true for fetchmail -v -v.
> 
> Say, there are 20,000 mails with just one new mail. When a user runs 
> "fetchmail -v --nosyslog" or "fetchmail -v -v", the user 
> sees some protocol level activity at the start. This could be "SEARCH 
> UNSEEN" for IMAP or "UIDL" for POP3. From that activity, it 
> becomes clear that there is just one new mail.
> 
> What follows this activity is a series of "skipping message n" lines 
> from 1 to 19,999. These lines do not make any sense if all the user is trying to 
> do is to look at the protocol level logs for the 20,000th mail. In fact, if the 
> output is to the terminal, these 19,999 lines without any real IMAP/POP3 
> activity can lead to a slow scrolling. There is also the risk of hitting the 
> timeout at the mailserver since no real activity has occurred on the mailserver 
> end while those 19,999 lines are getting printed.
> 
> For IMAP, the logs could look like:
> 
> IMAP> A0010 SEARCH UNSEEN
> IMAP< * SEARCH 20000
> IMAP< A0010 OK SEARCH completed
> skipping message ...@...:1 (not flushed)
> skipping message ...@...:2 (not flushed)
> skipping message ...@...:3 (not flushed)
> ...
> skipping message ...@...:19997 (not flushed)
> skipping message ...@...:19998 (not flushed)
> skipping message ...@...:19999 (not flushed)
> IMAP> A0011 FETCH 20000 RFC822.SIZE
> 
> The real solution would be to remove all the "skipping message n (not 
> flushed)" messages if they are not related to any protocol activity as they 
> do not add any real value. The patch attached should do the trick. Please check 
> and evaluate. Note that I have not tested for POP3 with UIDL as yet.


I am sending the patch to the devel list to check if the patch is getting removed here.

Sorry for the unnecessary traffic.

-- 
Sunil Shetye.