Re: Timing out while trying to connect to gmail. Config?

On Thu, Mar 7, 2019 at 1:29 PM Charles Cazabon
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Mauricio Tavares <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >
> > > Aha.  I had assumed from your initial report that it was timing out before
> > > it was able to connect, login, retrieve any messages, etc.  That's not the
> > > case.
> [...]
> > > What you want to do in that case is set the max_messages_per_session to a
> > > small value -- basically the maximum number of duplicate messages you want
> > > to have to deal with.  Try something like 10 or 20, for example.  Then you
> > > run getmail periodically (by hand, or with a helper) and it will
> > > eventually have retrieved all of your mail, disconnecting after each batch
> > > to make sure the server state is updated (which can get lost if the
> > > connection is dropped).
> >
> > Reading https://support.google.com/a/answer/1071518?hl=en, I believe
> > now I understand what is going on: gmail has IMAP bandwidth limit of
> > 2500MB per day.
>
> That's interesting; I hadn't heard of that before, but it does explain the
> behaviour you're seeing.  So it looks like you'll have to stay under that

      I myself was also not aware of that; I really did not expect it
since I never saw that with any other provider (OK, I will try with my
old yahoo account, which is now probably full of important messages
from the Nigerian Prince). It also means it will take quite a while to
download the emails.

Lesson learned: next time I create a new email account, start backing
it up from the get going.

> limit (or buy a bigger limit, if they support that).  Presumably this is only
> an issue while you retrieve your old mail; after you're "caught up" you'll
> only be pulling down new mail each day (with a sane getmail configuration,
> anyway).
>
> > I will change my config from X messages/day to MB per day.
>
> Not sure how - getmail doesn't have such a feature ;).  Of course you can just
> run getmail until it fails to connect, then have it wait until the next day to
> start again.
>
      Well, I think it has something that will be close enough to fit
my needs: max_bytes_per_session. I actually set it to 2500*1024*1000 =
2560000000 bytes instead of 2500MB, and now will wait until tomorrow
to see if it is successful. Then, after a few days of successful
testing, I will just change my script and run getmail once a day, only
trying again if it is not successful.

> Charles
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