Hi, I just got mutt setup to send/receive gmail messages using
sendmail, fetchmail, and msmtp. Everything works fine except for one
problem, whenever I send myself a message with my gmail account,
foo@gmail.com to foo@gmail.com, fetchmail doesn't download it (it shows
in the webmail interface). It only downloads the message if it's sent
from a different email account. Can you see any problems with my
fetchmail config, this is annoying because I usually send programs that
I wrote in computer class to my own account so I can work on them at
home.

This is my ~/.fetchmailrc
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set postmaster "jack"

poll pop.gmail.com with proto POP3 and options no dns
user 'user@gmail.com' is 'jack' here options ssl

password "mygmailpasswd"
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I can't see anything wrong with what I have here, perhaps you can,
please tell me if you know what the problems is, thanks!

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On 13 May 2006 10:46:53 -0700, Jack wrote:
> problem, whenever I send myself a message with my gmail account,
> foo@gmail.com to foo@gmail.com, fetchmail doesn't download it (it shows
> in the webmail interface). It only downloads the message if it's sent
> from a different email account.

I think this is a so-called-"Feature" of gmail. Gmail is so smart it
assumes you wouldn't want to download your own messages, so it
doesn't include messages from your gmail account sent through their
smtp server in your pop3 downloads.

It has annoyed me for quite a while. Even setting up forwarding
rules at gmail doesn't seem to help.

> I can't see anything wrong with what I have here, perhaps you can,
> please tell me if you know what the problems is, thanks!
>

If your rules work for the rest of your email, I'd say they are
fine.

Brad





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Hmm... here's an idea, don't know if it could work.

-Send your self a gmail invitation and make a new account.
-Set the account to bounce back or forward emails from your address.
-Every time you want to send something to yourself, send it to that
account.
-Everytime you send something to yourself, just send to that account.