Topic: fetchmail exceeds fetch size limit

[mo79]

I get this message when trying to fetch mail "The message "Fw: subject" from "X <M@iladress.com>" (4151464 bytes) exceeds fetch size limit.

is there somewhere I can change the limit for fetchmail.


TIA

Martin

[mo79]

Reading my post I can see that there's no details, so I'll try to explain.

My SME server is running on old Hardware, so I bought some new Hardware and made a fresh install of SME.

I created the same users as the "old" server, and now I want to copy mail from the old server to the new.
I login with my user using webmail, and setup fethmail to recieve mail from the "old" server.  It seems to work with 253 mail out of 255 but the last 2 I get the error "The message "Fw: subject" from "XM@iladress.com>" (4151464 bytes) exceeds fetch size limit.

Am I doing this wrong or is there a better way of getting my mail from the "old" to the new server..

TIA

Martin

[Jáder]

I think you should search for IMAPCOPY.
I personally never used it. But everyone say it´s a good tool.

You also could search for IMAP COPY on forums... I´m sure someone post a script to copy mail messages using SCP and everything else who needs to be changed (permissions/owner) to work on new server.

I think with fetchmail way you´ll loose the original date of e-mails.

Jáder

[thomasch]

Hi, the easiest way to do it is to use IMAP client that support copy/move messages from one mailbox to another mailbox

I use Thunderbird (IMAP mode) to copy messages from one account at one server to another account at another server.