Re: [Fetchmail-users] Figuring out the fetchid of a particular message

[Matthias A. <mat...@gm...>]

Am 31.03.2015 um 15:02 schrieb Joe M:
> Hello,
> 
> There is one particular message that is not getting downloaded to my
> computer from my hotmail account. I am trying to figure out why. I
> cleaned up the last 100 fetchids, but, that does not seem to help
> either.
> 
> I have "bad-header accept" setting but that does not help either.
> 
> Is there any way that I can figure out what the fetchid of a
> particular message is. I do not want to delete all the fetchid's as
> there are a few thousand emails in my hotmail inbox that I want to
> keep them there.

Let's start with <http://www.fetchmail.info/fetchmail-FAQ.html#G3>.

Then, once you have that log generated,
you can harvest the necessary information from the log:

- the UIDL command that fetchmail sends to the server is answered
  with a list of message number and the ID.

Removing that ID from .fetchids would make fetchmail try to receive the
message on the next run.

Note that fetchmail will skip the very first message under certain
circumstances, and will log it as "retained" and not "kept" - it does
that if the message appears to store the UIDVALIDITY value for a UWIMAP
server.  Such messages often have a fat warning Subject like "DO NOT
DELETE THIS MESSAGE - FOLDER-INTERNAL DATA".

Hope that helps.