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More options Mar 31, 8:35 am

From: eulogos

Date: Sun, 30 Mar 2008 20:35:02 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Mon, Mar 31 2008 8:35 am

Subject: Re: Fixing POP problems in 1-2-3 steps

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Is there a place where the information is at a more basic level? What
I want to do is get my road runner email sent to gmail. I think
someone else was asking a similar question but it hadn't been
answered. Everybody knows my road runner email address and I have
listservs to there, so if I have to change to a web based email to get
email on my laptop, I want that mail to be forwarded to it.

Of course, if I knew how to get an email program here that I could
hook to my road runner email, I would just as soon do that. But I
don't know how to do that either, For some reason this mac, instead
of having an email program like Outlook (or the one I use on the Linux
computer my sons set up, Konqueror) directed me to a web based email
which is part of a service I have to pay 99 bucks a year for. I kind
of resent that.

I put this here because I know POP has something to do with telling an
email program what server to look for the email on. I know what to
put in the boxes for incoming mail server and outgoing mail server on
Konqueror or Evolution email to get them to get road runner mail.
But I don't know how to get my road runner mail on gmail.....or how to
get an email program compatible with mac onto my laptop that i could
then tell to go get my road runner mail.

I don't know what a "client" is in your above discussion, which right
away kept me from going any farther with trying to understand it.
Thanks
eulogos

On Mar 19, 2:39 pm, Gmail Guide Yellow wrote:

> Ever encounter one of these problems with POP?

> - Your messages suddenly stopped downloading
> - You have to re-enable POP every time to continue downloading
> messages
> - Only some messages are being downloaded while others are being
> skipped
> - The same message is being downloaded over and over again
> - ALL your messages are being downloaded again

> If so, here are 3 simple solutions that can help fix your problem:

> 1. Try enabling recent mode in your POP client by replacing
> "[email address]" in the Username field of your POP client settings
> with "recent:[email address]", and configure your POP client to
> leave mail on the server. Recent mode only fetches the last 30 days of
> mail, so it's ideal if you don't want your smartphone to download
> thousands and thousands of messages. Disclaimer: If you don't leave
> messages on server in your mail client settings, your messages may get
> moved to Trash after download. For more information on recent mode,
> check outhttp://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47948

> 2. If you're not using recent mode, ensure that your email client is
> NOT configured to leave mail on the server.

> 3. Try deleting the entry for your Gmail account in your POP client
> and then re-adding it with all the correct settings.

> If these steps don't resolve your problems, check out Gmail IMAP!

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