On 12/04/2005 11:18 pm, Tyler Nally wrote: > On Sunday 04 December 2005 05:59 pm, Pollywog wrote: > > I do that as well and have no problem, but when I use the fetchmail as > > shown at the URL I posted (the command goes into a crontab), fetchmail > > can't find the IMAP folder. > > I wonder if it's just the way you refer to the sub-folders with > fetchmail in order to fetch the right directories.... "Fetchmail" > being essentially a "dumb" utility .. you might have to provide it > with more information before it can find what YOU are looking for. > > A quick scan of Google looking for "fetchmail IMAP" had someone > calling fetchmail like this using the IMAP protocol and fetchmail > reading certain folders: > > fetchmail -k -a -p IMAP \ > -S localhost \ > --smtpname [EMAIL PROTECTED] \ > -u username \ > --auth password \ > -r "Inbox.folder1","Inbox.folder2","Inbox.etc" \ > -v mailserver.domain.com > > ... with the "Inbox" representing the home "Maildir" path > and the "Inbox.folder1" representing the first named sub-folder > within the main maildir... and "Inbox.folder2" the 2nd, etc.
Thanks for the info, this worked :) This is what I did, following what you posted: $ fetchmail -a -v -n -r "Inbox.LearnAsSpam" -m 'sa-learn -D --spam' Thanks for your help, now to see if this will work from a crontab, which should not be a problem. 8)
