fetchmail finding downloaded mail

[Steven Stern]

On 09/23/2014 07:14 PM, Alex wrote:
> 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?
> 
I think the folder is represented in imap gmail/trash or something like
that.


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-- Steve