[Discuss] Using thunderbird for sending gmail

[Jerry Feldman]

If I only used 1 system to read my email, I would use getmail. I used to
use fetchmail, but I access gmail on my phone, my laptop, as well as
desktop.


On Mon, Aug 31, 2020 at 4:22 PM Rich Pieri <richard.pieri at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Mon, 31 Aug 2020 15:56:15 -0400
> Randy Cole <randyokc at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I also need to download all my gmail emails as I am bumping quota
> > constantly (since I am a pack rat) and cannot get it configured to
> > work! Used to use Eudora with gmail IMAP4 & it worked swell, but that
> > has all been obsoleted.  Preference is to store stuff in
> > non-proprietary format, download all attachments, and retain folder
> > structure and original mailbox header (as i forward my spam to my
> > main email).  I think I most recently tried getmail with no joy.
>
> This getmail configuration has been working for me for at least a few
> years. getmail because it has the delete_after option to prune old mail
> (last I knew fetchmail does not have an option like this). procmail is
> configured to use Dovecot's deliver program but you can also have
> getmail deliver directly to Maildirs or mbox files instead.
>
> Reading and sending mail I mostly use Sylpheed.
>
> [options]
> read_all = False
> delete_after = 7
> verbose = 0
> message_log = ~/.getmail/Richard.Pieri at gmail.log
> message_log_verbose = False
>
> [retriever]
> type = SimpleIMAPSSLRetriever
> server = imap.gmail.com
> username = Richard.Pieri at gmail.com
> password = XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
> port = 993
>
> [destination]
> type = MDA_external
> path = /usr/bin/procmail
>
> --
> Rich Pieri
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