Re: Downloading custom folder from gmail

Thanks for the max_messages_per_session
option Charles. I can't try that out today, probably not 
tomorrow, but will post result. 

I never delete from gmail, except solidspam, since gooogle 
provides the space and I change machines in my dept and 
at home every few years. I have a lot of folders (or `label's) 
but really only need two or three in addition to the givens 
(sent, spam, etc). 

Retrieving all and sorting afterwards is definitely better
than what I have been doing. 

Thanks again, 

Alec

On Sun, 22 Jul 2018 10:59:43 -0600, Charles Cazabon <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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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