Re: Retrieve all messages from AOL

> Okay.  You do have getmail configured correctly for retrieving only new
> messages and leaving them on the server.  The reason it retrieves them
> again
> is because the session is not being ended successfully.  getmail only
> considers a message successfully retrieved and delivered if the session
> ends
> cleanly.
>
> What you should do is set max_messages_per_session to something reasonable
> -
> say, a few hundred messages.  getmail will retrieve that many messages,
> then
> exit and update its state.  You keep re-running it until it has worked its
> way
> through the entire message store.

Thank you. This seems to improve the situation for retrieving inbox. Can
you recommend an approach to retrieving the sent mail box (the other
folder with thousands of messages)?

- Compilebunny