Re: [Fetchmail-users] Using Fetchmail with IMAP

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

Hi Keith,

On 13/11/2017 10:00, Keith wrote:
> I would like to use Fetchmail to receive all emails sent to my ISP that
> uses IMAP. The problem is that I use a mobile device to regularly read
> my ISP email. When Fetchmail goes to retrieve my email it sees the
> messages as seen and won't download them. There is one command that will
> fetch all email on the server, but I want to keep my email on the ISP
> server after downloading it with fetchmail.

Sounds like you need POP but to leave the emails on the server. This 
would reduce the bandwidth required to only the new messages.

I mention this as I route all my ISP mail for my domain through a Gmail 
account. I have a dovecot IMAP server at home, using uidl for what it is 
worth without UIDVALIDITY. Once the mails have been downloaded from the 
Inbox they are archived in GMail, allowing me to always have a backup, 
albeit not marked as unread.

Perhaps you could do something similar as GMail is great for SPAM filtering.

I use fetchmail to POP all the email from my GMail inbox, both seen and 
new, into my local IMAP mailserver. From here I can use any device I 
care to access the mailbox over my local network i.e. sync device early 
morning and use web access for what comes during day, if needed/before 
next sync.
> 
> Is there a command that will retrieve the email that has not been
> downloaded by fetchmail even though it has been seen by my mobile email
> device?
> 
> 
> 
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