Re: I want to retrieve the last few days not the whole inbox

On 1/22/22 20:02, Charles Cazabon wrote:
> dmacdoug <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I have a lot of mail in my inbox and I want to retrieve only the last few
>> days, not the whole inbox to a fresh getmail install.  I can't find where
>> getmail saves the last message it retrieved so I can set which message I'd
>> like it to start at.
> That's not how getmail works - in fact, it can't work that way, as POP and
> IMAP don't support that concept; the server does not track "what this client
> has seen and what it hasn't".  getmail keeps track of the messages it has
> seen, nothing else.
>
>> Is that possible?
> Not in the way you're talking about.  You only need to retrieve old mail once
> for getmail to remember it as "seen" and not fetch it again (with the
> appropriate options); you can delete the local copy afterwards and getmail
> won't know or care.
>
> Charles

I'm not sure I understand.  I don't want to tell the IMAP server where 
to start, I want to tell getmail to pretend it has already seem most 
messages and just start at message x.  It seems to me that it usually 
will tell me so many messages retrieved, so many messages skipped.

So I figured it must have saved the number of messages to skip somewhere 
and I'd like to alter that number and tell it to skip more.  Maybe I 
have a misunderstanding about how it decides what to skip

Donald