Re: Downloading custom folder from gmail

Charles Cazabon <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.mail.getmail.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Long black coat <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I've tried that and it seemed to be working well. I have about 88,000 emails
> on gmail and getmail says it retrieved 37365. I got a very long error
> message ending with

That looks like an error at the Gmail end.  As Larry mentioned, you should
probably have max_messages_per_session set to some reasonable number so that
getmail retrieves and delivers messages, then deletes them from the server (if
you're setting that option) and records its state.  Then just run getmail
multiple times until it's worked through the whole backlog of messages.  I
suggest 500 as a good starting point.

It's *very* rare that a busy IMAP server will *not* encounter any errors
through a single session downloading almost 100k messages.

Charles
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