Need a fetchmail guru (JoAnne D.?) who's been using it to pop his/her gmail

Gene Heskett gene.heskett at verizon.net
Tue Dec 25 16:58:52 UTC 2007


On Tuesday 25 December 2007, Tim wrote:
>On Mon, 2007-12-24 at 14:06 -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> I think it will eventually get it all, but with SA in the chain, lets
>> just say its slow and let the imagination come up with descriptive
>> ways to describe how slow it is.  With 3k+ messages to go, it will not
>> finish today.
>
>The obvious question:  Why not disable spam assassin for the moment,
>dredge in all your mail as fast as you can, filter expected mail to
>their own folders, then assess the remainder for spam.
>
I thought of that as it was stuck on gmail and not pulling the main accounts, 
so I added a per session fetchlimit of 10 for a trial.  It looks as if I can 
raise that a bit and still get the main account in a fairly timely manner.

So it will catch up, eventually...

Thanks Tim.

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