[users]Re: fetchmail exis status 1 - Only few emails are getting retrieved.

[Wade Smart]

09182007 0940 GMT-6 DST

This exact topic is being discussed in the fetchmail group.
https://lists.berlios.de/mailman/listinfo/fetchmail-users

Wade


(``-_-´´) -- Fernando wrote:
> On Monday 17 September 2007 12:39:54 Dilip M wrote:
>> On 9/17/07, Hal Burgiss <hal at burgiss.net> wrote:
>> ....snip...
>>
>>> You've told the server to 'keep' old mails. If you want to download
>>> *all* mails (and remove from server) use 'nokeep fetchall'. Otherwise,
>>> I believe you will only download any mails since the last retrieval.
>> I want to keep all emails kept in server. and download a copy to local
>> box. Hence, I use that option.
>>
>> fetchall option will retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from
>> the mailserver.
>>
>> In my case, fetchmail is successful in downloading 700 out of 3000 emails.
>>
>> -- 
>> Dilip
> 
> To gmail that option has no effect, since it is ignored.
> I have had this same prob, where I download many batchs of 251 emails but then it stops.
> After a few tests, I noticed that gmail only allows a few batches per day.
> Just wait a few hours, and try again.
> 
> 
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