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Mail App and Gmail

  • 07-07-2008 10:40am
    #1
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭


    Hi Lads,

    I've gone with what people said on here and just downloaded all my mail to the mail app, well it's actually still downloading over 8000 emails!
    My problem is it's stopped downloading at february of this years emails? When I click to download the mail is just makes a noise and nothing else?
    Anyone know what's up?

    Thanks
    Gary


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  • #2
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Try going into Gmail in your browser, go to the settings and choose the "Forwarding and POP/IMAP section and (re)confirm the POP section to give it a kick.

    Caution, this might cause Apple mail to download everything again, meaning that you could end up with duplicate mails, so you might want to archive what Mail has downloaded, so you can discard it if all mails get downloaded again, or add them back in if they don't.


  • #3
    Creamy Goodness
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    not relatated entirely to your post but use gmail's IMAP capabilities, 10 times better than pop.


  • #4
    dubmick
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,929 ✭✭✭dubmick


    Yeah you are much better off using the imap functionality


  • #5
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭randombar


    Works perfectly now, de job! Also got the google mail synch working with my contacts! Savage!


  • #6
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    What changes did you make, compared to your first post?


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  • #7
    randombar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,428 ✭✭✭randombar


    Switched it to IMAP, downloaded everything much quicker!


  • #8
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    I tried IMAP with Gmail late last year, but it and Apple Mail didn't seem to get on - lots of duplications etc - anyone having Gmail IMAP issues, or have things improved?


  • #9
    Sad Professor
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Arts Moderators, Entertainment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 22,693 CMod ✭✭✭✭Sad Professor


    Type 17 wrote: »
    I tried IMAP with Gmail late last year, but it and Apple Mail didn't seem to get on - lots of duplications etc - anyone having Gmail IMAP issues, or have things improved?
    You probably synced it to your existing POP Mail account. I stupidly did this and lost everything on Mail and the Gmail server. Luckily I had a Time Machine backup from an hour earlier.

    If you're setting up IMAP with an existing Gmail account it's wise to create a new account for it in Mail and let it download everything again. Don't attempt to sync it with an existing inbox in Mail that was previously using POP.


  • #10
    Type 17
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,731 ✭✭✭Type 17


    Actually checking back, the issues that I had were that, precisely because I didn't sync with the existing POP account, I ended up with an IMAP account that had no sent items in the sent folder, so I had to keep the POP account in the Mail app. (I know that I could have copied them, but it was after I'd decided to go back to POP).

    The other thing to watch for is to untick the box in the accounts prefs called "Store Drafts on the server" - My gmail account is connected to a BlackBerry, and when this box is ticked, it sends a copy of any open mails once a minute to the BB, which means that you get (potentially) dozens of copies of a partly-completed mail clogging up your BB.


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