On 8/26/06, Samuel Baldwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Unfortunately, the only time I have had any success with this was with the Windows port of Thunderbird. Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails. As well, the time (...)
Samuel, I've had similar problems with Gmail, but I'm not using thunderbird. I was getting mail using standard fetchmail, delivering them to a local maildir and then using good old mutt to display them. I had to do this twice in the past, because my mailbox would fill and I had to empty it, so I could keep receiving mails (*yes*, that's it, I filled my 2.5gb inbox twice). The problem I had was getting the mails in some strange order, and only by the hundreds. As I had about 30000 emails, I had to keep fetching and deleting until I got all mail. It's a bit weird, but I'm pretty sure this isn't an issue with thunderbird, but an issue with Google's POP server. It just doesn't show all your messages if you have lots of them. Maybe they do this to avoid trouble, as if the connection is broken before the client sends the QUIT command, the messages are not deleted. Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I haven't tried without this set. -- Bruno Lustosa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.lustosa.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
