multiple fetchmail on gmail

hello,

suppose I have gmail as my fount of email and I have two places I want to
pop my email to, A and B. A and B are to see all the email.

I have tried setting this up and it seems A and B are not getting all the
mail. I had something like this working fine on a different pop server but
maybe I have something misconfigured as far as gmail goes.

fetchmailrc reads:

poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3 uidl
user 'davisf2+gmail.com' there with password 'xxxx' is
davisf here options keep ssl

I have this on both A and B.

my googling suggests this is right but it's not working for me. I invoke
fetchmail by 'fetchmail -d 900'. the two machines in question are SUSE
10.

(I actually want the ability for three machines, if that makes a
difference. thought I could generalize the 2 machine solution.)

Felmon

Re: multiple fetchmail on gmail

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006, felmon davis wrote:

fd> hello,
fd>
fd> suppose I have gmail as my fount of email and I have two places I want to
fd> pop my email to, A and B. A and B are to see all the email.
fd>
fd> I have tried setting this up and it seems A and B are not getting all the
fd> mail. I had something like this working fine on a different pop server but
fd> maybe I have something misconfigured as far as gmail goes.
fd>
fd> fetchmailrc reads:
fd>
fd> poll pop.gmail.com proto pop3 uidl
fd> user 'davisf2+gmail.com' there with password 'xxxx' is
fd> davisf here options keep ssl
fd>
fd> I have this on both A and B.
fd>

You probably need the --all option as well. But at some stage you will
need to poll without the --keep to get rid of all the old messages.

I have just had a look at the gmail settings and there is an option to
tell it what to do when messages are accesses with POP. Maybe you have it
set to delete?

You could of course, set up two more gmail accounts and forward a copy of
incoming mail to them. Then you would have a one-to-one account for
POPing.

--
Alan

( If replying by mail, please note that all "sardines" are canned.
There is also a password autoresponder but, unless this a very
old message, a "tuna" will swim right through. )

Re: multiple fetchmail on gmail

On Fri, 22 Sep 2006 20:00:13 +0100, Alan Clifford wrote:

> You probably need the --all option as well. But at some stage you will
> need to poll without the --keep to get rid of all the old messages.

but you can't use '-all' and '-keep' at the same time. I need all messages
kept on the server so A and B can both have at them.

> I have just had a look at the gmail settings and there is an option to
> tell it what to do when messages are accesses with POP. Maybe you have
> it set to delete?

no, it is set to keep a copy on gmail.

> You could of course, set up two more gmail accounts and forward a copy
> of incoming mail to them. Then you would have a one-to-one account for
> POPing.

man, this is a great idea! though I would prefer to get fetchmail
doing the job on one gmail account, if possible, this is a great option
which I will use if necessary!

Felmon