Re: Every retrieval a duplicate

Many thanks Larry, Max, 

This sounds completely reasonable now, but
I did not understand the syntax. 

I am now using

[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = imap.gmail.com
mailboxes = ALL

.....

max_messages_per_session = 500


This actually appears to be retrieving all 88k messages again. 
The sequence now appears to be folder-by-folder with oldest
email first. (I have about 20 personal folders in addition to
the standard Inbox, Sent Mail, Spam, Bin, etc.)

Or else the original retrieval with

mailboxes = ("Inbox", "[Gmail]/All Mail") 

missed a great many (several thousand) messages. 

Ideally I'd like to start over, with mailboxes = ALL
but I guess that won't work because of marks on
already retrieved messages. 

Alec

On Fri, 31 Aug 2018 08:14:41 -0500, Larry Fahnoe <[email protected]> wrote:

> My guess is that the duplicates are due to you telling getmail to retrieve
> from both GMail's Inbox and All Mail.  All Mail contains all your messages,
> Inbox is a virtual folder that contains only unread messages.  Once a
> message is read it is removed from Inbox, but stays in All Mail.  Depending
> on what you're trying to accomplish, I would suggest one or the other but
> not both Inbox and All Mail.
> 
> --Larry
> 
> On Thu, Aug 30, 2018 at 2:40 PM Long black coat <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> 
> > Hi.
> >
> > Getmail is retrieving two copies of all emails in my Inbox. These
> > are simultaneous retrievals from a single getmail command.
> >
> > It is also duplicating retrievals of many emails that have been moved
> > from Inbox into custom folders; I can't see any pattern to when this
> > happens and doesn't happen.
> >
> > I'm retrieving from a gmail IMAP account.
> >
> > My rc file is below. Any help will be much appreciated.
> >
> > # More configuration options here:
> > # http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html
> > [retriever]
> > type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
> > server = imap.gmail.com
> > mailboxes = ("Inbox", "[Gmail]/All Mail") # optional - leave this line out
> > to just grab inbox
> > username = redacted
> > password = redacted
> >
> > [destination]
> > type = MDA_external
> > path = /usr/bin/procmail
> > arguments = ("-f", "%(sender)", "-m", "$HOME/.procmailrc")
> >
> > [options]
> > verbose = 2
> > message_log = ~/.getmail/log
> > message_log_verbose = true
> > max_messages_per_session = 100
> >
> > read_all = false
> >
> > delivered_to = false
> > received = false
> >
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