Re: Retrieve all messages from AOL

Compilebunny <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> I want to retrieve all messages from the horror show that is AOL Mail.
[...]
> When I use SimplePOP3SSLRetriever, the first 2000 messages download. Then,
> I start getting
> 
>   Retrieval error: server for SimplePOP3SSLRetriever:(username):995 is
>   broken; offered message (message ID) but failed to provide it.  Please
>   notify the administrator of the server.  Skipping message...

Okay.  That is a bug at the server end, as the message says.

> If I start the POP3 getmail again, it seems to download the same 2000
> messages.

Please post the output from getmail running somewhere on the web, and include
a link to it here, along with the output of running getmail with your usual
options plus --dump.

> Is there any way to resume the download from where it left off without
> deleting the messages from the server?

It should already be doing that.  I need to see the above info to tell you why
it isn't.

Charles
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