Re: [Fetchmail-users] Downloading 'seen' email?

[Jerry <je...@se...>]

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:45:37 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) stated:

>I have been noticing that some email, although possibly read on Gmail 
>and marked as unread, is not downloading to a local mailserver.
>
>Looking at the log for the last retrieval I see the line of:
>
>***Start***
>fetchmail: 155 messages (67 seen) for 72h...@gm... at 
>pop.gmail.com (15312088 octets).
>***End***
>
>Looking through the log I see that the number of messages seen changes 
>yet never hits 0.
>
>My fetchmailrc is:
>***Start***
>
>#set daemon 300
>#set syslog
>#set postmaster "hylton"
>set logfile /var/log/fetchmail.log
>poll pop.gmail.com
>protocol POP3
>
>user "mygmailaddress" there with password "mypassword": is "hylton"
>here keep ssl
>#7mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
>***End***
>
>Whilst there may be other errors in the above file, my main concern is 
>how to retrieve the 67 'seen' messages as they are not on the local 
>mailserver but are listed as unread on Gmail, and are sitting in the
>Inbox?
>
>Comments?
>Hylton
>P.S: If this has been covered previously, please direct me to the 
>archive location of messages for fetchmail so I can use its search 
>function and hopefully find the answer.

A quick and easy fix is simply to access the messages via a web
interface and mark them as "unread". They will then be downloaded the
next time fetchmail accesses the server.

-- 
Jerry