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

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

Use IMAP instead.

POP assumes that only a single mail client is using the mailbox. IMAP is
for when you're using multiple clients, and they should track the read
status internally, not rely on the mailbox state.

On Tue, Jul 11, 2017 at 9:54 AM Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) <
hy...@co...> wrote:

> 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.
>
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