fetchmail finding downloaded mail

Alex mysqlstudent at gmail.com
Wed Sep 24 00:14:07 UTC 2014


Hi,

>> It's been some time since I've used fetchmail, but I'm trying to
>> configure it again to backup my gmail account, and I can't figure out
>> where it's stored my downloaded mail. I'm using fedora20 and the
>> latest version of fetchmail.
>>
>> I'm first trying to get it to download a single message from Trash as a test:
>>
>> $ cat .fetchmailrc
>> poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP
>>    user "mysqlstudent at gmail.com" is alex here
>>    password 'mypass123'
>>    folder 'Trash'
>>    fetchlimit 1
>>    keep
>>    ssl
>>
>> I've configured postfix on my local machine, and removed sendmail.
>> Postfix is running. Running "fetchmail -v" shows that it did download
>> the message, but I don't know where it put it. It's not in
>> /var/spool/mail/alex or anywhere in my home directory.
>
> fetchmail by default talks to the MTA on port 25.
>
> If you don't like the default, you could use the "mda" option to point
> it at your preferred MDA directly. Note that if you don't deliver your
> fetched message to a queue, mail can be lost if there are permission
> problems or lack of storage space. Usually, I add
>
>   mda "/usr/bin/procmail -t -f -"
>
> to ~/.fetchmailrc to deliver to procmail directly (which stores in the
> local mailbox even if there are no custom recipes in the .procmailrc).

I've just tried this, and it also produces no output. There's nothing
in /var/spool/mail and nothing to indicate fetchmail was speaking with
postfix in /var/log/maillog. Maybe it's not actually downloading?

fetchmail: IMAP< A0003 OK [READ-WRITE] Trash selected. (Success) [THROTTLED]
fetchmail: IMAP> A0004 SEARCH UNSEEN UNDELETED
fetchmail: IMAP< * SEARCH
fetchmail: IMAP< A0004 OK SEARCH completed (Success) [THROTTLED]
1 message (1 seen) for mysqlstudent at gmail.com at imap.gmail.com (folder Trash).
fetchmail: IMAP> A0005 LOGOUT
fetchmail: IMAP< * BYE LOGOUT Requested
fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK 73 good day (Success) [THROTTLED]
fetchmail: 6.3.26 querying imap.gmail.com (protocol IMAP) at Tue 23
Sep 2014 08:08:13 PM EDT: poll completed
fetchmail: normal termination, status 1

Is the connection always throttled? It also says "1 seen", but does
that mean it downloaded it?

Thanks,
Alex


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