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#59587
28.2; gnus does not retrieve emails sent from another device
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Reported by: Waleed Yousef <wyousef <at> fcih.net>
Date: Fri, 25 Nov 2022 23:52:01 UTC
Severity: normal
Found in version 28.2
Done: Jakub Ječmínek <kuba <at> kubajecminek.cz>
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Oh; but for the imap account Gnus keeps fetching all the emails again
and again! I have to remove this :predicate "1:*"
Waleed Yousef <wyousef <at> fcih.net> writes:
> Amazing!
>
> I just added added what you have suggested (:predicate "1:*") to the
> imap account I have; it fetched more than thousand emails, including
> those sent today. So, it is working now for imap. However, how can I do
> it for pop? The strange thing is that it was working until just weeks or
> months ago; what happened!!
>
> Just for your information, I will re-share my mail source settings:
>
> ```
>
> (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
> :user "wyousef <at> fcih.net"
> :port 995
> :stream ssl
> :leave non-nil)
> (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
> :user "wyousef <at> aucegypt.edu"
> :port 995
> :stream ssl
> :leave non-nil)
> (pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
> :user "wyousef <at> gwmail.gwu.edu"
> :port 995
> :stream ssl
> :leave non-nil)
> (imap :server "mail.uvic.ca"
> :user "wyousef <at> uvic.ca"
> :port 993
> :predicate "1:*"
> :stream ssl
> :mailbox ("inbox" "sent items")
> :fetchflag "\\Seen"
> )
> ```
>
> Eric Abrahamsen <eric <at> ericabrahamsen.net> writes:
>
>> On 12/09/22 11:41 AM, Andreas Schwab wrote:
>>> By default, Gnus only fetches UNSEEN (and UNDELETED) mails, so make sure
>>> the sending MUA does not mark the sent mail as SEEN.
>>
>> Thanks, Andreas, I was hoping it might be something like this.
>>
>> Waleed, can you see what marks are set on the sent mail? SEEN is
>> distinct from READ. You can also change the config for your imap mail
>> source, adding
>>
>> :predicate "1:*"
>>
>> see the "Mail Source Specifiers" section of the manual. That only
>> applies to imap mail sources, though.
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