3 Nov
2014
3 Nov
'14
5:53 a.m.
I've finally got around to copying my mail from gmail to my home machine. I'm using getmail ( http://pyropus.ca/software/getmail/ , also in the Ubuntu repos), but it barfs after collecting my 80,000 messages across six hours - and then considers the next run to be "new" so it doesn't do collect only new mail, it collects it all again. And having not spotted that these are the same messages, it duplicates them and the backup directory is now twice the size it should be ... I'm using IMAP, and yes, it's set to only collect new mail. So has anyone got getmail fully working with gmail, or does someone have another recommended way of fetching gmail onto a local machine? Thanks. -- Giles http://www.gilesorr.com/ gilesorr@gmail.com