Fetchmail missing messages...

[Rob Connolly]

Hi All,

I have fetchmail setup as a link between my old mail inbox and my new
mail server. It has been happily syncing mail over for a while so that
when I eventually move over to my new server all my mail will be there.

Due to a misconfiguration that occured when I was working on setting up
virtual user accounts on the new server, incoming mail from fetchmail
started bouncing. This has now been fixed, but any mail that came over
in the time that this occured never got delivered to the new server.

The mail is still on the old server. My question is... is there any way
to get fetchmail to pull over the mail it is missing? Every time I run
it now it just pulls over new messages since it was last run, presumably
because it thinks it has already dealt with the other (missing)
messages.

Thanks in advance,

Cheers,

Rob

[Alexander Taler]

The mail is still on the old server. My question is... is there any way to
get fetchmail to pull over the mail it is missing? Every time I run it now
it just pulls over new messages since it was last run, presumably because
it thinks it has already dealt with the other (missing) messages.

I had to do this recently and used imapsync. It worked nicely
and can definitely fetch only the messages it needs to.

Alex
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[Rob Connolly]

Post by Alexander Taler

The mail is still on the old server. My question is... is there any way to
get fetchmail to pull over the mail it is missing? Every time I run it now
it just pulls over new messages since it was last run, presumably because
it thinks it has already dealt with the other (missing) messages.

I had to do this recently and used imapsync. It worked nicely
and can definitely fetch only the messages it needs to.

That looks good, although it looks like it will just sync over all my
mail since the folder arrangement is different on each server. I guess I
can just do that and then deal with the folders afterwards.

Rob

[Bruce Clement]

Post by Rob Connolly
The mail is still on the old server. My question is... is there any way
to get fetchmail to pull over the mail it is missing? Every time I run
it now it just pulls over new messages since it was last run, presumably
because it thinks it has already dealt with the other (missing)
messages.

I had to do this once, but long ago & I've forgotten the details.

I have some recollection that the ~/.fetchids (file recording last message
UIDs seen per host) was involved. I either edited or deleted it.

I can't remember the rest, but perhaps it will be enough to prompt someone
else's memory.

BTW: Expect some duplication of already retrieved messages.

HTH

Bruce
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[Bruce Clement]

Also have a look at this

(from man fetchmail)

Disposal Options
-a | --all
(Keyword: fetchall) Retrieve both old (seen) and new messages
from the mailserver. The default is to fetch only messages the
server has not marked seen. Under POP3, this option also forces
the use of RETR rather than TOP. Note that POP2 retrieval
behaves as though --all is always on (see RETRIEVAL FAILURE
MODES below) and this option does not work with ETRN or ODMR.


Bruce

On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 12:06 AM, Bruce Clement

Post by Bruce Clement

Post by Rob Connolly
The mail is still on the old server. My question is... is there any way
to get fetchmail to pull over the mail it is missing? Every time I run
it now it just pulls over new messages since it was last run, presumably
because it thinks it has already dealt with the other (missing)
messages.

I had to do this once, but long ago & I've forgotten the details.
I have some recollection that the ~/.fetchids (file recording last message
UIDs seen per host) was involved. I either edited or deleted it.
I can't remember the rest, but perhaps it will be enough to prompt someone
else's memory.
BTW: Expect some duplication of already retrieved messages.
HTH
Bruce
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