Re: getmail is only getting about 8000 of my ~100, 000 emails in Gmail

Hi Charles,

I followed the instructions on the Arch wiki:


https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Backup_Gmail_with_getmail#Migrating_emails,_importing_old_emails

Here's my getmail configuration:

# More configuration options here:
# http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/configuration.html
[retriever]
type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
server = imap.gmail.com
mailboxes = ("Inbox", "[Gmail]/Sent Mail") # optional - leave this line out
to just grab inbox
username = myUsername
password = verySecurePassword

[destination]
type = Maildir
path = /home/hello/eMails/Gmail/

[options]
verbose = 2
message_log = ~/.getmail/log
delivered_to = false
received = false
read_all = true

I deleted /home/hello/eMails/Gmail and reran the program.

First, it seems to fetch all the emails in my inbox:

msg  1/80 (35924 bytes) from <...> delivered to Maildir
/home/hello/eMails/Gmail/
msg  2/80 (21510 bytes) from <...> delivered to Maildir
/home/hello/eMails/Gmail/
...

It fetched all 80 messages successfully. Then it started to fetch emails in
my Sent folder:

msg    1/8312 (584 bytes) from <unknown> delivered to Maildir
/home/hello/eMails/Gmail/
msg    2/8312 (741 bytes) from <unknown> delivered to Maildir
/home/hello/eMails/Gmail/
msg    3/8312 (635 bytes) from <unknown> delivered to Maildir
/home/hello/eMails/Gmail/
...

Then after downloading all 8312 it stops. None of my archived and labeled
emails are downloaded. I will try "[Gmail]\All" next time and will post the
update here.


On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 1:26 AM Charles Cazabon <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Behrang <[email protected]> wrote:
> >
> > After running getmail, it only downloaded about 8000 emails (8000 files
> in
> > the new folder).
> >
> > Do I have to add the "[Gmail]\All" to the:
> >
> >     mailboxes = ("Inbox", "[Gmail]/Sent Mail")
> >
> > configuration to get them all?
>
> Maybe?  Gmail does a bunch of things that are weird from an IMAP client's
> point of view, and not being a Gmail user, I don't have personal experience
> with the UI.
>
> It's difficult to give you a proper answer because you didn't include any
> information that would help narrow down the cause.  The output of getmail
> when
> you ran it would have shown how many messages getmail "saw" when it opened
> each configured box/folder; did it get all those?  Did it emit any
> error/warning messages?  Did it exit normally after retrieving all the
> messages it intended to, or did it abort because of an error?  Does your
> configuration specify retrieval of all mail or just unseen mail, and had
> you
> run getmail more than once?  Do you have max_messages_* or other options
> set
> on the retriver?  etc, etc.
>
> In general, if you want help with software on a mailing list, you should
> include in your message:
>
> (1) what you did - exactly what command you ran including all
> options/flags,
> the complete contents of configuration files you used with no changes
> except
> obscuring passwords, any other setup you did
>
> (2) what you expected the software to do; what was the desired/expected
> outcome based on (1)
>
> (3) what the computer/software actually did instead - the complete output
> of
> the program, including warnings and errors
>
> Charles
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Best regards,
Behrang Saeedzadeh