[Alpine-info] incoming collections (and not)

[Andrew C Aitchison]

On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, Carlos E. R. wrote:


> El 2023-01-01 a las 21:47 -0000, Andrew C Aitchison escribió:

>> On Sun, 1 Jan 2023, Lucio Chiappetti wrote:

>> You may be able to run fetchmail as a daemon using the imap idle command

>> which will allow gmail to alert fetchmail that you have new messages,

>> so no waiting five minutes. This does require a long-running connection to 

>> gmail but you don't need to set up a TLS link every five minutes.

>> 

>> This works well with my provider but I haven't tried it with Gmail

>> as I just get them to forward my mail ...

>

> I understand that in this mode fetchmail can only do one account.


True,
which reminds me that I have an alternative fetchmail directory for this, 
and set FETCHMAILHOME to point to this directory.
(Since my gmail mail is forwarded, I don't need to collect from more than 
one place, but I could have a directory for each and script each one).

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Andrew C. Aitchison                      Kendal, UK
                    andrew at aitchison.me.uk