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

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

On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 14:48:46 +0200, Carlos E. R. stated:

>On 2017-07-11 14:20, Jerry wrote:
>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 12:59:57 +0200, Carlos E. R. stated:
>>   
>>> On 2017-07-11 12:20, Jerry wrote:  
>>>> On Tue, 11 Jul 2017 10:45:37 +0200, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
>>>> stated:    
>>>
>>>> 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.    
>>>
>>> Won't do.
>>>
>>> I also noticed that if I read a message on the phone, it later does
>>> not download with fetchmail. I'm not fully sure, I'd have to
>>> verify, but I suspect this is what happens.
>>>
>>> In that case, I can not go on the web everytime I use fetchmail.  
>> 
>> All you have to do is use the web interface on your phone to access
>> "gmail", or whatever web based email client you are using. After you
>> have read your message(s), mark them as "unread". It is really quite
>> simple to do.  
>
>Very inconvenient.

Okay, this is so simply anyone could do it. I am assuming that this is
a Gmail account. Other web-based mail works basically the same.

1) Create a new web-based account

2) In Gmail, under <SETTINGS> <FORWARDING and POP/IMAP> Enable: Forward
a copy of incoming mail to <Your New Account> and "Keep Gmail's copy in
the inbox"

3) Configure fetchmail to download mail from your new account.

You can continue to read mail from your old account without screwing up
everything. It doesn't get much simpler than that.

-- 
Jerry