[GTALUG] Collecting (g)mail

[Giles Orr]

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.

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Giles
http://www.gilesorr.com/
gilesorr at gmail.com