Re: how to fetch the dovecot spam folder contents with fetchmail?

On Monday 22 November 2021 15:56:18 Matthias Andree wrote:

> Am 22.11.21 um 21:51 schrieb Gene Heskett:
> > Greetings; The spam battles continue.
> >
> > I'm having trouble with fp's that originate from some of the more
> > popular mailing lists. I've been using a browser to move them back
> > to the inbox but when the spam folder gets hit with 20 msgs in a
> > week, none of which are real spam, its time to address the problem
> > with a bigger hammer.
> >
> > So, how to I make fm pull the spam that isn't spam from that folder
> > too, while its cleaning out the inbox?
> >
> > Cheers, Gene Heskett.
>
> Gene,
>
> if you are using IMAP, you can use the "folder foo" rcfile argument
> (or --folder foo) on the command line, and you can specify several of
> them per account.
>
> Depending on the server's namespaces, you may need to use a prefix for
> the spam folder. On some servers, it might be called Spam, on other
> servers, it might be INBOX.Spam. Check the server operator's
> instructions.
>
> Hope that helps.
>
> Cheers,
> Matthias
>
I will.  Thank you Matthias.
>
>
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