* Brian Salter-Duke <brian.james.d...@gmail.com> [12-05-17 00:51]:
> I am increasing getting an error when I try to download my gmail email into
> mutt. Clearly it is not a mutt error, but maybe some mutters can help me.
>
> I use a script that includes:-
>
> fetchmail -f ~/.fetchmailrc-gmail --keep
>
> and similar lines for a few other email accounts (that all work) followed by
> calling mutt.
>
> .fetchmailrc-gmail is:-
>
> poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options
> user 'brian.james.d...@gmail.com' with pass "*****" is 'brian' here
> ssl
> sslcertck
> sslcertpath '***************'
> smtphost localhost
> fetchall
>
> mda "/usr/bin/procmail -f brian -m /home/brian/.procmailrc"
I cannot now remember why, but I changed gmail to imap some years ago and
cannot recall any problems in quite some time, 4 or 5 years. I use:
poll imap.gmail.com nodns tracepolls with proto IMAP port 993 timeout 45
user 'ptilopt...@gmail.com' there with password 'xxx' is 'xxx' \
here options fetchall stripcr sslproto tls1 ssl sslcertck
mda '/usr/lib/sendmail -i -oem -f %F %T'
antispam 571 550 501 554
sendmail hands off to procmail
I occasionally get an error but not from gmail:
fetchmail: socket error while fetching from
ptilopt...@att.net@imap.mail.yahoo.com
fetchmail: Query status=2 (SOCKET)
but that error clears itself and I don't loose mail.
gud luk,
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