Hi, On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 12:58:38PM +0200, bugrep...@2c2.de wrote: > Package: getmail4 > Version: 4.20.0-1 > Severity: wishlist
Since I do not do what was reported as below, I am not the right persopn to push this to the upstream. I am CCing this to upstream getm...@lists.pyropus.ca since upstream may be interested. The original bug reporter, please discuss this kind of feature request with upstream. > Hi there, > > I would like to back up mails stored in a GMail account > automatically on a regular basis, while still using said GMail > accout. Since I personally don't need to preserve the folder > structure and don't want copies, I just use the "All Mail" folder. > > Tools like offlineimap, imapsync and such (all in Debian) can't do > this, since they propagate changes back and forth. So if I move a > backup mail, it would be deleted in GMail and if I delete a mail in > GMail, it would delete this same mail from my backup. > > I tried Fetchmail, but it utterly fails, because it only downloads > unread mails or all mails over and over every time it starts, > because it doesn't keep it's own database. > > In fact, Getmail seems to be the only tool useful for such a job. > Unfortunately, Getmail will mark all mails as read, once it runs. So > if I run it at night, all mails that arrive after I switched off the > mail client will be marked as read when I turn the "normal" client > back on. > > This could be prevented if Getmail would use the "peek" option. In > this [1] discussion, the author of Getmail indicated [2], that he > won't implement it, because it doesn't work properly with all IMAP > servers. > > Because of that, someone created a fork [3], in which Getmail uses > the peek option. But only optional. The default behaviour is to act > like the standard Getmail. > > This is exactly how I would like Getmail to work. Have an peek > available as an option. > > It would also be interesting to know exactly which servers and > widely used IMAP services (AOL, GMail, etc.) don't work well with > the "peek" option. Maybe have a list available, or even implement it > directly in Getmail, so it will tell you when it thinks that the > peek option is unsafe, because it is connecting to an incompatible > imap server. > > thx, > > Malte > > [1] http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/3899 > [2] http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.mail.getmail.user/3915 > [3] https://github.com/alyandon/getmail-peek > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
