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

[Hylton C. (ZR1HPC) <hy...@co...>]

Jerry,

comments below.

On 11/07/2017 12:20, Jerry wrote:
> 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.


As I stated in my first sentence, whilst the messages may be read using 
the web interface or Gmail app on my phone or iPad, they are also marked 
as UNREAD using the same device immediately after I have read the email.

For some reason, respite being marked as UNREAD and sitting in the Gmail 
Inbox, these items do not download into my local mailserver via POP3?

Anyone have an idea as I too do not want to have to then download them 
using fetchmail.

Regards
Hylton