Re: [Fetchmail-users] switching to IMAP, retrieve (all ?) folders

[grarpamp <gra...@gm...>]

On 1/27/20, Joe Acquisto-j4 <jo...@j4...> wrote:
> I am several versions behind at 6.3.2  Upgrade requires
> various other upgrades as well.  If not required, at least sensible.

Fetchmail is rather easy to compile separately, even static.
That way you may be able to drop the resulting
binary into your system, or call it separately,
without say needing to handle whatever dependency
graphs package managers try to do before you are
ready for big global upgrade.

> wish to retrieve all folders or, if that is not possible, to retrieve a
> specific folder along with the default folder.
>
> Or, must I fetch folders one by one?
> example syntax for ~/.fetchmail  would be nice as well.

folder option accept a comma list, and will internally
combines multiple folder options.

I don't think there is this magic 'all folders' option.
You might like to use the RFC below to try create a patch for
people that will query the server and pull them all like that.
Could optionally create matching local folder hiers on fly.

Even go crazy and select matching "mda" choices,
though most people probably like to keep that as
separate invocation anyway.

> I am waiting for
> the provider to supply the exact folder syntax.

IMAP is plaintext protocol, you can use the IMAP RFC
to manually login with openssl s_client, speak IMAP,
and fetch a list of what the folder names on the remote
system actually are. It is fun to try it at least once :)