-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday, 2008-10-07 at 12:13 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
You could do a manual POP3 session and just delete emails.
Via telnet? Impossible. Gmail uses encrypted mode login (ssl). Mmmm... perhaps "kshowmail", but the version I have does not support ssl, afaik.
POP3S ? Hmm, well. Maybe avoid gmail altogether? :-)
X'-) No, it's just another nuisance. I can clear that mailbox even if I have to download them all again, just I'd do some extra filtering to put them aside. Or I keep using imap with another nuisance. Dunno. I'm trying to recompile kshowmail to check what it supports. [...] Surprise! Kshowmail does support ssl (at least version 3.3.0 (kde3 only) does). I'm testing it right now. [...] It only displays 1400 emails at a time (a month, roughly). Trying to delete that bunch takes long and times out, so I'm trying to delete 500 now. [...] Ah, no, I can increase the timeout and delete a larger bunch. Also, I got a private reply; it is possible to connect to gmail on a terminal: openssl s_client -connect pop.gmail.com:pop3s -crlf -quiet but it doesn't work: cer@nimrodel:~> openssl s_client -connect pop.gmail.com:pop3s -crlf -quiet depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com verify error:num=20:unable to get local issuer certificate verify return:1 depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com verify error:num=27:certificate not trusted verify return:1 depth=0 /C=US/ST=California/L=Mountain View/O=Google Inc./CN=pop.gmail.com verify error:num=21:unable to verify the first certificate verify return:1 +OK Gpop ready for requests from 81.*.*.* 5pf541900eyf.7 user ............. +OK send PASS pass ................. +OK Welcome. dele * - -ERR malformed command 5pf541900eyf.7 read:errno=0 cer@nimrodel:~> It appears I'm to use that "5pf541900eyf.7" string somehow :-? I have also learned the root cause of pop3 having so much mail in the queue: it is in my gmail webmail config: POP Download: Learn more 1. Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 2007-12-29 ( ) Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded) ( ) Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on ( ) Disable POP so that's the reason. I can mark the 2 option and be done with deleting mails, and use pop3 instead of imap again. [...] Done, works. I have also read a thread talking about my problem: it appears they use 7 bits, and any char above 127 is replaced with "?". It also happened inside the body of email when using imap, and this part has been solved. The problem with the headers I dunno. http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-POP-and-IMAP-en/browse_thread/thread/c004f1207c045967/6a6845effb294f9d?lnk=gst&q= [,,,] I have found a "known problems link" here: https://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=known_issues.cs Searching there for "imap", the first one is the problem I have: Non-Latin characters can corrupt message headers Message headers contain technical information necessary for the successful delivery of messages between email servers. Gmail's IMAP implementation re-encodes the information stored in message headers, but non-ASCII characters may become garbled. For example, this can affect the 'To:' line in an email message if a name is written in a language that uses non-Latin characters. Several issues can result from corrupt message headers, including delivery problems. The Gmail Team is working to resolve this issue. And there is a "report button", which only gives a "thanks!" and no place to write anything. I assume they know about it and want no further reports. They are not very fast solving issues, it seems... this problem has been active for almost a year :-( - -- Cheers, Carlos E. R. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkjsqy0ACgkQtTMYHG2NR9UQkQCgi3rTzEOPp9ikKPH91iqdv0h5 qX0An30jA+KeCn076GRi3YkrPnDvTnDd =lTCz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org