Hi,
The problem is the password in .fecthmailrc is not the passeword of your
GMAIL messaging.
For GMAIL, fetchmail is an external application, you must generate another
password that used only by fetchmail!
Now, when fetchmail run, after I can't see my email with my client email
(mutt), what I
as the protocol (though the reason why people want to use
POP3 when IMAP is available escapes me).
I had problems with fetchmail and gmail pop3. emails would start being
missed after undeleted emails hit about 600. By 1000 undeleted emails,
nothing was being downloaded. I don't remember if emails
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't
it! How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc. Thanks!
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Hi,
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
Thanks!
Regards.
Alex
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc
poll pop.googlemail.com
protopop3
service 995
user
On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote:
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't it!
How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
This what I have as part of my ~/.fetchmailrc
poll
On Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Ma, 20 dec 11, 17:51:10, Brian wrote:
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 18:24:19 +0100, Alex Padoly wrote:
How do you do to run fecthmail with gmail with POP3 protocol, I can't
it!
How do you do to write the file .fetcmailrc.
This what
On Tue 20 Dec 2011 at 23:26:38 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the
username must always be your complete e-mail address.
I just have the username. Tried it with justfo...@gmail.com and that
worked too.
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On 21 December 2011 07:26, Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
Just something that might not be obvious in Brian's example: the
username must always be your complete e-mail address.
I have a feeling the fully-qualified address is only required if it's
a Google Apps (Gmail for your
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
of cloning the Microsoft model.
I'm not
On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote:
what benefit would I get from procmail?
1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without
rewriting your rules.
good idea.. I like that, especially when testing different email programs.
2. The ability to pull mail without having
On 2009-09-01 04:45, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue August 25 2009, Chris Jones wrote:
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
of
On 2009-09-01 04:51, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[snip]
right now, on my system I have icedove, evolution, kmail, and claws, all setup
for my local user. procmail seems to move the mail into an mbox file, and I
haven't figured out how to get any email program to read an mbox folder.
But you see,
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
If your person message store is an mbox file, then I'd:
this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I
don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an mbox
folder in an account, but I don't see any
On 2009-09-01 05:19, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Tue September 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
If your person message store is an mbox file, then I'd:
this is the part I can't figure out.. I don't have an mbox setup on kmail, I
don't see a way for it to read an mbox folder.. I tried to create an
On Tue, 1 Sep 2009 05:51:49 -0400
Paul Cartwright a...@pcartwright.com wrote:
On Tue August 25 2009, Micha wrote:
what benefit would I get from procmail?
1. The ability to move from kmail to something else if you want without
rewriting your rules.
good idea.. I like that, especially
On Wed, Aug 26, 2009 at 12:30:03AM -0400, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
it resides and can back
On Wed, 26 Aug 2009 00:30:03 -0400
Chris Jones cjns1...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
it resides
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200
kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its syntax) is
*very* powerful. I recently did a major
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it
all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to
On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote:
On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling
mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to
do that explicitly from the command line
Not very familiar with kmail, but claws-mail (sylpheed too?) has
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example of the hidden benefits
of cloning the
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about
my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
As another poster hinted, this is another example
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking
about my 200 kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that
On 2009-08-25 18:29, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 03:02:44PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-25 13:55, Chris Jones wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 08:56:27PM EDT, Paul Cartwright wrote:
[..]
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking
about my 200 kmail
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
On 8/24/2009 11:34 PM, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:44:57 +0300
Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Ma,25.aug.09, 13:32:21, Micha wrote:
On the downside, if you want to explicitly pull mail now, pulling
mail from kmail doesn't pull the mail off your accounts, you need to
do that explicitly from the
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
it resides and can back it up and human read it
As the resident Sylpheed fanboy, I must
On Tue, Aug 25 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 20:56:27, Paul Cartwright wrote:
but looking at the procmailrc( now non-existant), then thinking about my 200
kmail filters, I'm not sure I could tackle that task..
maildir (and procmail too as I hear, but I don't like its
On 2009-08-25 23:30, Chris Jones wrote:
On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 10:57:01PM EDT, Celejar wrote:
On Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:32:21 +0300
Micha mi...@post.tau.ac.il wrote:
...
3. Text file with regular expression based rules that you know where
it resides and can back it up and human read it
On Sun, Aug 23, 2009 at 9:30 PM, Ron Johnsonron.l.john...@cox.net wrote:
On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote:
Hi all,
could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
Now *this* is an excellent flame!
Why do you consider my opinion as flamewar, whereas I only expect
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
Maybe I haven't been understood well. My mail provider gives me a
password. In mail program I add it to some wallet or let mail program
to encrypt it after setting up. If I want to use fetchmail, I have to
write it there in plain text (correct me if
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
So? Where's the advantage? My mail program fetches mail *for me* from
my ISP's POP server, passes it thru any filter (let it be
spamassassin), then writes it to separate folders depending on
basically anything. Fetchmail, MTA, MDA avoided, whereas
...
From user's point of view it is something additional. Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to
set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and
fetchmail configuration file.
It's not that difficult. Really.
In my (ordinary
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescuandreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
[cut]
Ok, so now I see the reasons to move:
1. Power flexibility:
(if one needs something more than what mail application can offer)
Yes, in many cases it is, but the
On 8/24/2009 3:05 PM, Rob Gom wrote:
On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Andrei Popescuandreimpope...@gmail.com
wrote:
On Mon,24.Aug.09, 11:37:53, Rob Gom wrote:
[cut]
Ok, so now I see the reasons to move:
1. Power flexibility:
(if one needs something more than what mail application can
On Monday 24 August 2009 07:05:18 Rob Gom wrote:
I believe that storing passwords encrypted is always
safer than storing them unencrypted.
Well, then you would be wrong.
I an unattended program can take the bytes stored in the inode(s) and send
your password to your ISP then a program written
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
On the other hand I forgot my password several times (way too many password
protected accounts each with it's own password restrictions) and it saved
me that I could just open the file and see the password.
try keepassX, a great little app ( linux windows)
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail pulls it
all in via my local user. From there I have many, MANY filters to put mail in
separate folders.
what benefit would
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts. Kmail
pulls it
all in via my
On 2009-08-24 17:11, Kevin Ross wrote:
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 1:35 PM
On Mon August 24 2009, Micha wrote:
Personally I use fetchmail + procmail to fetch and filter my mail
I use fetchmail to pull in my mail for all my domain accounts.
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs
like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl.
what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add
another program into the mix.
right now I do
From: Paul Cartwright [mailto:a...@pcartwright.com]
Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 5:56 PM
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs
like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl.
what I'm asking is..
On 2009-08-24 19:56, Paul Cartwright wrote:
On Mon August 24 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
But if Paul is asking the benefit of procmail over competing MDAs
like maildrop, then the benefit is cryptic line noise a la Perl.
what I'm asking is.. will it benefit me to change the way I do email and add
Hi all,
could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
From user's point of view it is something additional. Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to
set it up both in MUA (retrieve mail from local mail box) and
fetchmail
Rob Gom rgom.deb...@gmail.com writes:
[...]
Are there any mail programs which allow seamless integration with
fetchmail/getmail?
If by that you mean allow you to get your mail via POP or IMAP without
editing any configuration files, sure, all of the GUI mail clients do
this: Thunderbird,
On 2009-08-23 14:09, Rob Gom wrote:
Hi all,
could anyone explain to me why fetchmail is needed in the first place?
Now *this* is an excellent flame!
From user's point of view it is something additional. Instead of
configuring mail setup in single place (MUA, mail program), one has to
set it
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to
be many things
On Fri,21.Aug.09, 11:43:04, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed
On 2009-08-21 02:18, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Fri,21.Aug.09, 11:43:04, Girish Kulkarni wrote:
On Thu, 20 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I
On 2009-08-17 12:20, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[snip]
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually
work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail?
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On Thu,20.Aug.09, 06:40:29, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-17 12:20, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[snip]
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail?
I admit this is uninformed
On 2009-08-20 11:44, Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Thu,20.Aug.09, 06:40:29, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 2009-08-17 12:20, Andrei Popescu wrote:
[snip]
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
What's so strange about fetchmail
Andrei Popescu writes:
[Fetchmail] retrieves mail via POP3 and IMAP only to inject it back to
SMTP
That's a feature.
ESR mentioned he wanted to make the configuration syntax easy.
It's trivial: just name-value pairs.
Apparently he made it so easy that a dedicated editor is needed
Because
Ron writes:
Sentence-like, which [Fetchmail configuration] is!
It can appear to be, but the extra words are ignored. You can just use
name-value pairs, which I think are clearer. There is a special editor
(fetchmailconf) for those who fear configuration files (quite common,
unfortunately).
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Andrei Popescu andreimpope...@gmail.com wrote:
...
I admit this is uninformed, but it seems to me like fetchmail tries to
be many things, but not particularly good at anything:
- it has a daemon mode reported to hang
Been using it for about 10 years now,
On Mon, 17 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to
actually work together must be a dark art :)
True! :-)
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On Thu, 13 Aug 2009, Ron Johnson wrote:
Slightly OT, but when you try again, use the --expunge option so
that when you restart fetchmail
Yes, this worked. Thanks!
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On Sun, 16 Aug 2009, Andrei Popescu wrote:
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
expunge 20' seems to be
working for me now, although honestly, I don't understand why that
should be necessary.
flame
Fetchmail and Gmail both seem strange to me. Getting them to actually
work together must be a dark art :)
/flame
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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
, 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
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
On 2009-08-13 16:17 (+0530), Girish Kulkarni wrote:
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
On 2009-08-13 05:47, 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
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