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Re: Fetchmail and Gmail



I don't know if this helps but by default thunderbird will just copy them not delete I have to manually delete emails from my account to sync with what I already downloaded to my machine.

On Sun, Aug 16, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Andrei Popescu <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> wrote:
On Thu,13.Aug.09, 16:17:30, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm having an issue with Fetchmail and Gmail on my system (Lenny).  It
> will help if someone could help understand what's going on.
>
> While downloading archived messages (around 20 thousand of them, 800
> MB) from my Gmail account via POP3, Fetchmail stopped after fetching
> 9985 messages.  It now keeps saying that there are "549 read messages"
> on the server but clearly, there are many more.

Did you check that or are you just assuming? I'm asking because from my
experience gmail was *deleting* mails as soon as retrieved via POP3 (but
not via IMAP).

Regards,
Andrei
--
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
(Albert Einstein)

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