Re: [fetchmail-users] non-default "mailbox selection failed"

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

On Thu, May 24, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Travis Osterman <tr...@ws...> wrote:
> Hello, I am trying to use fectchmail to fetch the contents of a folder
> (.spam.missed/) from my courier-imap server so that I can send the
> messages to spamassassin's learning program.  Using this as a guide:
> http://wiki.apache.org/spamassassin/SingleUserUnixInstall#Enable_IMAP_LearnAsSpam_folder
>
> When I invoke
> $ /usr/bin/fetchmail -a -v -n --folder /home/USER/.maildir/.spam.missed/
> -m '/usr/bin/sa-learn -D --spam' --fetchmailrc /home/USER/.spamtrainingpoprc

That's not a mailbox path - that's a file system path. Try passing the
mailbox as the argument (presumably .spam.missed).

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