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<div><span class="gmail_quote">On 5/31/07, <b class="gmail_sendername">Derek Broughton</b> <<a href="mailto:news@pointerstop.ca">news@pointerstop.ca</a>> wrote:</span>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="PADDING-LEFT: 1ex; MARGIN: 0px 0px 0px 0.8ex; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid">Matthew Flaschen wrote:<br><br>> Mario Vukelic wrote:<br>>> On Wed, 2007-05-30 at 22:18 -0400, Matthew Flaschen wrote:
<br>>>> Why not just set Thunderbird not to delete email from the server?<br>>><br>>> IMAP _is the much better option if a mail account shall be shared<br>>> between multiple clients. It will,
e.g., remember the read status, which<br>>> POP will not<br>><br>> True, but since the account is already POP, a separate IMAP server is<br>> needed which adds complexity.<br><br>Not half as much, imo, as trying to keep message status straight when
<br>leaving messages on a POP server for retrieval by multiple parties.<br><br>I use Fetchmail to fetch from gmail and drop into the Maildir directories<br>serviced by my local IMAP, and dovecot for the imap server. Fetchmail
<br>takes a little bit of setup, dovecot almost none.<br>--<br>derek<br><br><br>--<br>ubuntu-users mailing list<br><a href="mailto:ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-users@lists.ubuntu.com</a><br>Modify settings or unsubscribe at:
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<div>Okay i've got Fetchmail setup and Dovecot running with IMAP as the selected service. I run the fetchmail retrieval and this is what i get. </div>
<div> </div><pre>fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying <a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a> (protocol POP3) at Thu 31 May 2007 05:44:17 PM EDT: poll started
Trying to connect to <a href="http://64.233.167.111/995...connected">64.233.167.111/995...connected</a>.
fetchmail: Issuer Organization: Equifax
fetchmail: Unknown Issuer CommonName
fetchmail: Server CommonName: <a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a>
fetchmail: <a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a> key fingerprint: 59:51:61:89:CD:DD:B2:35:94:BB:44:97:A0:39:D5:B4
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Gpop ready for requests from <a href="http://66.188.47.198">66.188.47.198</a> z52pf14465pyg
fetchmail: POP3> USER <a href="mailto:myemail@gmail.comfetchmail">myemail@gmail.com
fetchmail</a>: POP3< +OK send PASS
fetchmail: POP3> PASS *
fetchmail: POP3< +OK Welcome.
fetchmail: POP3> STAT
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 59 311482
59 messages for <a href="mailto:myemail@gmail.com">myemail@gmail.com</a> at <a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a> (311482 octets).
fetchmail: POP3> LIST 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK 1 3845
fetchmail: POP3> RETR 1
fetchmail: POP3< +OK message follows
reading message <a href="mailto:myemail@gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1">myemail@gmail.com@gmail-pop.l.google.com:1</a> of 59 (3845 octets)
Trying to connect to <a href="http://127.0.0.1/25...connection">127.0.0.1/25...connection</a> failed.
fetchmail: connection to localhost:smtp [<a href="http://127.0.0.1/25">127.0.0.1/25</a>] failed: Connection refused.
fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost failed
fetchmail: POP3> QUIT
fetchmail: POP3< I'm running Edubuntu Dapper Drake (6.10) on a Macintosh Powerbook
fetchmail: SMTP transaction error while fetching from asyrewicze@gmail.com@<a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a> and delivering to SMTP host localhost
fetchmail: 6.3.6 querying <a href="http://pop.gmail.com">pop.gmail.com</a> (protocol POP3) at Thu 31 May 2007 05:44:18 PM EDT: poll completed
fetchmail: Query status=10 (SMTP)
fetchmail: normal termination, status 10
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<div><b>.. checking failed!</b> <br><br clear="all"></div>
<div>Any ideas on this???<br>-- <br> Ando</div>