Going thru the man pages the -a option makes fetchmail fetch all mails , but it doesnt do that,, still only fetchs new mails only,

Here is my .fetchmailrc

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set postmaster "postmaster"
set bouncemail
set no spambounce
set properties ""

defaults proto pop3
poll pop.gmail.com user b.jayakrishnan@gmail.com is common here pass **** ssl

# options ssl sslcertck sslcertpath '/home/chirico/certs/.certs'
# smtphost localhost

# You would use this to by-pass Postfix

mda '/usr/bin/procmail -d %T'

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the command i ran was

[B]fetchmail -a -vv[\B]

It only pulls new mails,

hmmm i used the command

fetchmail --all -vv and it worked, dunno whats the idff between -a and --all option