fetchmail finding downloaded mail

[Patrick O'Callaghan]

On Wed, 2014-09-24 at 16:53 -0400, Alex wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> >> > There are no "real" folders in Gmail. It's a database. "Folders" are
> >> > simply labels (which is why the same message can be in multiple
> >> > "folders"). Possibly Trash is a special case of messages marked for
> >> > deletion (as happens on IMAP servers), I wouldn't know.
> >>
> >> I meant "real" in terms of accessibility from IMAP, compared to the
> >> labels/filters that can be created and aren't really part of IMAP at
> >> all.
> >>
> >> So I moved the 260k messages I had in Trash to some folder called
> >> [imap]/Trash, and as the name implies, I was then able to access them
> >> using fetchmail.
> >
> > AFAIK they are all accessible from IMAP, however your IMAP client may
> > not be subscribed to all of them. For example, I don't subscribe to the
> > Gmail Trash folder (label) from Evolution because Evo has its own
> > virtual Trash folder which is slightly different (it follows the
> > canonical IMAP model, which strictly speaking Gmail doesn't).
> 
> I'm pretty sure there are some folders that just aren't available.
> There's also an option in Settings that allows you to select/unselect
> which folders are visible to IMAP, and the general Trash folder is not
> there, along with many other folders.
> 
> "All Mail" is another folder that I just can't figure out how to access.

I do see the Gmail Trash folder (and [IMAP]/Trash which is different and
has nothing in it currently). I also see Drafts, Important, Starred and
Sent Mail, but not Chats, Spam or All Mail, so they are clearly special
cases.

poc