getmail doesn't download all emails

Lich · 2010-02-04 21:45:29

I have a working mutt + getmail (pop3) + msmtp setup. No procmail as I don't really receive 100 emails/day.
I use a normal mbox file to hold the emails.
Problem is that I can't seem to download all the messages that I have in my gmail inbox now. All that getmail downloads are new mesages.
I know by default it should get only new emails, but I also tried `getmail -a`, which should download all messages, but still nothing.
Any ideas?

Last edited by Lich (2010-02-04 21:47:21)

wonder · 2010-02-04 21:58:13

gmail has an option in webmail where you can setup this behavior. maybe is set to download mails that arrives from now on.

skanky · 2010-02-04 22:02:58

There is a read_all option in the configuration file. I don't know which has precedence, but you might want to check that.

getmail --dump

is a quick way to check your config if it's in the default place (~/.getmailrc), otherwise you need to go and look at the file.

Otherwise, you may want to try and delete your oldmail* files from your config directory.

If neither of those work, you should turn on verbose and check the log and see what's being reported. I think it can be specified multiple times to get more info.

Kitty · 2010-02-05 06:22:21

use

recent:user_name@gmail.com

in place of the regular user name, it'll get *all* the mail from the account. It's a gmail thing, so it works with fetchmail, fdm, etc.

Lich · 2010-02-05 06:42:36

Well, this last thing worked. It didn't get them ALL (102 out of 200 in the inbox), but it's better than nothing. Thanks everybody !
Edit, nvm,it worked...

Last edited by Lich (2010-02-05 06:45:47)

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getmail doesn't download all emails

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