Re: Retrieve all messages from AOL

Thank you for the reply.

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

Unfortunately, I can't call AOL and tell them to fix their systems. They
know what they are -- if they had any intention of having their systems
work correctly, they would have fixed it a long time ago.

> 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.

Please excuse the expired certificate on empericalvagabond.com

1. getmail --rcfile=getmailrc.pop3 > getmail-pop3.results

http://www.empericalvagabond.com/getmail/getmail-pop3.results
http://www.empericalvagabond.com/getmail/pop3stderr.txt

This time, it got 3000 messages instead of 2000.

2. getmail --dump --rcfile=getmailrc.pop3 > getmail-pop3.results.dump

http://www.empericalvagabond.com/getmail/getmail-pop3.results.dump

3. Second run getmail --rcfile=getmailrc.pop3 > getmail-pop3.results2

http://www.empericalvagabond.com/getmail/getmail-pop3.results2

This time, it seems to recognize that the first 3000 messages have already
been retrieved.

The software recommends that I use the BrokenUIDL version of the POP3
handler. However, the BrokenUIDL adaptation cannot identify which messages
have already been downloaded, and thus would end up getting the first
2000-3000 messages over and over again.

What do you think?

- Compilebunny


> 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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