Re: [users]Re: fetchmail exis status 1 - Only few emails are getting retrieved.

On Monday 17 September 2007 12:39:54 Dilip M wrote:
> On 9/17/07, Hal Burgiss <hal@burgiss.net> wrote:
> ....snip...
>
> > You've told the server to 'keep' old mails. If you want to download
> > *all* mails (and remove from server) use 'nokeep fetchall'. Otherwise,
> > I believe you will only download any mails since the last retrieval.
>
> I want to keep all emails kept in server. and download a copy to local
> box. Hence, I use that option.
>
> fetchall option will retrieve both old (seen) and new messages from
> the mailserver.
>
> In my case, fetchmail is successful in downloading 700 out of 3000 emails.
>
> --
> Dilip

To gmail that option has no effect, since it is ignored. I have had this same prob, where I download many batchs of 251 emails but then it stops. After a few tests, I noticed that gmail only allows a few batches per day. Just wait a few hours, and try again.

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