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Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)

From	Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net>
Newsgroups	linux.debian.user
Subject	Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd)
Date	2020-03-29 12:30 +0200
Message-ID	<zPDmx-fk-5@gated-at.bofh.it> (permalink)
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	Hi.

On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 10:06:19AM +0200, Pierre Frenkiel wrote:
> as requested, here is the output of fetchmail -v

So, login's good:

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0002 LOGIN "pierre.frenkiel" *
> fetchmail: IMAP< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA ID XLIST CHILDREN X-GM-EXT-1 UIDPLUS COMPRESS=DEFLATE ENABLE MOVE CONDSTORE ESEARCH UTF8=ACCEPT LIST-EXTENDED LIST-STATUS LITERAL- SPECIAL-USE APPENDLIMIT=35651584
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0002 OK pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com authenticated (Success)

Mail sizes fetched:

...
> fetchmail: IMAP< * 100 FETCH (RFC822.SIZE 12783)
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0005 OK Success
> fetchmail: IMAP> A0006 FETCH 1 RFC822.HEADER

And here lies an anomaly - then requested mail headers:

> fetchmail: IMAP< * 1 FETCH (RFC822.HEADER {3040}
> fetchmail: reading message pierre.frenkiel@imap.gmail.com:1 of 211 (3040 header octets) (log message incomplete)
> fetchmail: IMAP< )
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0006 OK Success

Gmail returned exactly zero rows (there should've been headers before
"IMAP< )").
Whichever is broken is broken on their side, not yours.

> fetchmail: IMAP> A0007 FETCH 1 BODY.PEEK[TEXT]
> fetchmail: IMAP< A0007 NO System Error (Failure)

No surprise it bailed on attempt to retrieve mail body.

I see three options here:

1) Try using POP3 instead of IMAP.

2) Replace fetchmail with getmail.

3) Make a forward to your gmx mailbox from gmail.

Reco

Thread

fetchmail timeout (fwd) Pierre Frenkiel <pierre.frenkiel@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 10:10 +0200
  Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd) mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 10:50 +0200
  Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-03-29 12:30 +0200
    Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd) Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2020-03-29 14:30 +0200
      Re: fetchmail timeout (fwd) mick crane <mick.crane@gmail.com> - 2020-03-29 19:00 +0200

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