From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1G2Kmp-0002OZ-5N for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:32:51 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with SMTP id k6H4ViHk032141; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:31:44 GMT Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com (nf-out-0910.google.com [64.233.182.190]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.7/8.13.6) with ESMTP id k6H4RE68010116 for ; Mon, 17 Jul 2006 04:27:15 GMT Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id m19so393376nfc for ; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:27:15 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Kux/JyHM/OHQH9VkdvMIe7h4hY5kCwL9ayBtQent6QGUE/BloXdgwSJGSTD1M5SxWXAiPwVQEa8AscPTl30ITw7k5bftEANee6WlNQrIYdvk/vcKhFVlMGOp0Iahp2aAoGKvBrC+Eve+HlmN1B+KhKB9R6hp9s8aPsSXIywPJig= Received: by 10.78.165.16 with SMTP id n16mr652065hue; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.78.120.10 with HTTP; Sun, 16 Jul 2006 21:27:15 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <7bef1f890607162127u21ea87d9oc6a967b6942ce09c@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 17 Jul 2006 14:27:15 +1000 From: "Alan E. Davis" To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] simple POP mail with Gmail? Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Archives-Salt: 23ebaaf0-5925-456f-a8cb-7a2391b9fc60 X-Archives-Hash: 1ce28cf32657d6f834f7861b04d2e509 I have been beating my head against some email issues for a long time, so it's time to cry "Uncle!" I have been able to download my POP mail via fetchmail, but every time I download, the download limit has been about 1MB. I would like to have a local copy of all of my mail, an archive, and I want to compose my mail off-line. I would like to have an MTA set u], like I used to , to send all my email in a batch when I connect. I like MH alot. I like Sylpheed / Sylpheed-claws, VM and some other GUI apps that work over the top of MH. I have several hard drives/partitions with historical archives of email in mh format from long ago. I tried to follow a couple of howtos, and got lost in a miasma of encryption/authorization configuration issues that will probably lead to other problems later on. I'd like to do this in the simplest, most direct way possible---although I would not mind a bit of security, I don't want to get lost along the way. Some questions: 1. Can I use fetchmail to fetch only the latest 1000 (or so) emails from gmail? I'd like to have an archive, up to date, for all email, but I have several machines. I have used a POP "client" in the past that I could do this, but cannot find such parameters for fetchmail. So far, every time I try to run fetchmail, or Sylpheed/Sylpheed-claws, the same thing happens---the downloads start from the earliest files on gmail's server, and only will download 1MB. In the numerous times I have started this, I haven't been able to reach anything near current. Are the files on the server marked somehow, or can I cause them to be marked so I don't grab them again (say, on another machine, but by me)? 2. How to incorporate all of the various Mail archives into a single, up to date one, to enable weeding and sorting all of those files from times gone by. 3. SMTP issues: is it even reasonable to ask for help to render a simple setup to use gmail as an smtp server? I had it working two years ago, or so, but it doesn't want to work anymore. For me. So far. I'd be happy to use sylpheed as a temporary gui email "client" with the ability to use fetchmail to do daily updates. GNUS is a possibility: I like GNUS, and I suppose it's reasonable to run a separate emacs process to run GNUS. I want to avoid evolution, as slick as it is, or thunderbird. I apologize that this seems a very complicated bunch of questions. Email has always seemed complicated to me, though. Alan -- Alan Davis, Kagman High School, Saipan lngndvs@gmail.com 1-670-256-2043 I consider that the golden rule requires that if I like a program I must share it with other people who like it. --------Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list