fetchmail finding downloaded mail

[Michael Schwendt]

On Tue, 23 Sep 2014 20:14:07 -0400, Alex wrote:

> 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

One message seen already. It didn't download any message. Somewhere else
in the full output you would see the total number of messages (here probably
just "1") and lines starting with "reading message" for each download.