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Operating Systems Linux Fetchmail Ate my inbox! Post 302232623 by drewrockshard on Thursday 4th of September 2008 11:52:19 PM
Old 09-05-2008
Fetchmail Ate my inbox!

Hello All.

I was messing around with Fetchmail on a Test Email account. Here's what my fetchmailrc file looks like:

Code:
poll imap.gmail.com proto IMAP fetchall
ssl

When I ran this, it removed all the test emails from my Google Account. There were a few emails that I needed, however, I can still access them from my Linux machine, but would like to know if there was a way that I can move the email from my linux machine back to Google. Is there such a way I can do this, or am I screwed, and have to just read those emails I "lost" from my Linux box?

I believe for this not to happen again, I need to put "keep" in my fetchmail config file. But for now ... can I push those emails back to the server by any chance?

Regards,
Drew
 

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WMAIL(1)							   User Commands							  WMAIL(1)

NAME
wmail - watches your inbox SYNOPSIS
wmail [OPTIONS] DESCRIPTION
wmail is a Window Maker docklet watching your inbox, which is either a ordinary mbox or a directory conforming to qmails Maildir format. It provides a nice little GUI displaying some useful pieces of information about your inbox. -display <string> display to use -c, --command <string> command to run on button-click ("xterm -e mail" is default) -i, --intervall <number> number of seconds between mail-status updates (1 is default) -f, --familyname tickers the family-name if available -fps, --frames <number> ticker frames per second -s, --shortname tickers the nickname (all before the '@') -sc, --symbolcolor <string> symbol color-name -fc, --fontcolor <string> ticker-font color-name -bc, --backcolor <string> backlight color-name -oc, --offcolor <string> off-light color-name -bg, --background <string> frame-background for non-shaped window -ns, --noshape make the dockapp non-shaped (combine with -w) -n, --new forces wmail to show new mail exclusively -mb, --mailbox <string> specify another mailbox ($MAIL is default) -e, --execute <string> command to execute when receiving a new mail -sf, --statusfield consider the status-field of the mail header to distinguish unread mails -rs, --readstatus <string> status field content that your client uses to mark read mails -fn, --tickerfont <string> use specified X11 font to draw the ticker -h, --help shows this help text and exit -v, --version shows program version and exit -w, --windowed runs the application in windowed mode ENVIRONMENT
wmail recognizes the following environment variables: $MAIL The location of the inbox you are using NOTES
Other mailing mechanisms like POP or IMAP are not supported. Use a tool like fetchmail to retrieve POP or IMAP based mail. AUTHORS
wmail was written by Sven Geisenhainer. This man page was written by Felipe Augusto van de Wiel. SEE ALSO
fetchmail(1). July 2006 wmail v2.0 (C) 2000~2002 Sven Geisenhainer WMAIL(1)
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