Re: [fetchmail-users] Google Mail officially unsupported by fetchmail (was: fetchmail exis status 1 - Only few emails are getting retrieved.)

Am Dienstag, den 18.09.2007, 13:40 +0530 schrieb Dilip M:

> l'll send a detailed log later. Its in my home PC.
> Between, found a similar problem, being faced by ppl!
> 
> http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/browse_thread/thread/1b0b48dc63208cc6/422005482555ac47#422005482555ac47
> http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-POP-and-Forwarding/browse_thread/thread/d9d260d4bd09c1aa/e5bdb51d252e0eff?lnk=gst&q=fetchmail&rnum=16#e5bdb51d252e0eff

This is all a waste of time and has no relation to fetchmail or is
something fetchmail could do something about at its end, and I'm not
willing to add workarounds because someone feels incapable to implement
the rather simplistic POP3 protocol properly.

I herewith declare Google Mail related issues unsupported in fetchmail.

Sorry, but I'm fed up with all this Google settings and nonstandard
behaviour that doesn't work out right and my extremely limited time
allows me but two choices: get rid of nonsense that ties up even more of
the time, or quit development altogether. I definitely prefer the
former.

I'll accept further Google Mail related patches to the FAQ, and
fetchmail will continue to do a best effort to fetch messages, but if it
doesn't work with Google Mail or if you get different results than you
expect, bother the Google staff instead, but not the fetchmail list
regulars or maintainers.

If this keeps cropping up, we'll have to set up autoresponders and bans
for the list.

Sorry again.

Best regards
Matthias Andree
role: fetchmail co-maintainer doing most of the work