Thanks, Marko and Kenneth!
Marko: For the forwarding, did you click the verification link that would have > been sent to you? Did you follow the steps as described in the help > <https://support.google.com/mail/answer/10957?hl=en>? I looked at the help but didn't remember seeing anything about a verification link, or the link itself when I tried to turn forwarding on. I now see that it was sent and that I received it, but I'm not sure whether I clicked on it or not. This doesn't make sense as you say you configured the 2nd account to use > IMAP. The messages would not be deleted unless you explicitly did so. I > will briefly cover the difference between POP and IMAP at the end of this > mail. > Maybe I did have it set to delete the messages, then – but if so it was inadvertent. This setting is specific to Apple Mail. As far as I remember it will reply > using the same email that was addressed in the To: of the message one is > replying. > I think it's a little more complicated than that – for new messages for example, and it says somewhere that the currently selected mailbox also figures. But it makes sense that the From: should be the same as the To:, and I can learn to live with that. AFAIK there is no setting to turn this off. Just change the 2nd account's > email address to be yours. > But then people would have to write to my address, wouldn't they? (Or maybe I don't understand.) Indeed. If you delete an IMAP account, the messages associated with it > will also be gone. You need to move them to a local mail folder (like the > one for your POP account). > This was my question. That is, is moving a message to a normal folder created in Mac Mail enough to dissociate it from the IMAP account. Again, I don't want to experiment with this with ten thousand messages involved (even if eight thousand are in the trash). This difference between the two [POP and IMAP] is for your own research > <http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Flmgtfy.com%2F%3Fq%3DWhat%2Bis%2Bthe%2Bdifference%2Bbetween%2BPOP%2Band%2BIMAP&sa=D&sntz=1&usg=AFQjCNFVpx4zytLn3tEePcx3ERjSaxc_PA>. > > In short, POP retrieves messages from a server and when done retrieving, > issues a delete command. > ??? But my messages have always stayed on Gmail after having been sent to my computer with POP, and they still do. Let me try to confirm this. The account type in Mac Mail preferences is... Google POP. Aha, maybe Google POP doesn't delete the same as normal POP does? [...] > > My question to you is, why not just use Gmail as it is intended i.e. via > a browser? You would have saved yourself a lot of bother. > Well, I was using email long before Gmail existed. Eudora was a great client, so I started using Mail to try to keep the Eudora advantages. Mail has never seemed to be as good as Eudora, but it's been good enough for me not to have seriously considered doing mail web-only, though maybe I should. Kenneth: It sounds like you're looking to end your attempts to receive emails from > both accounts due to the difficulties you're having using the Mac or IMAP > or POP. Right. I've stopped receiving them from the more recent second account. However, if you're still interested in monitoring emails received at both > accounts, I recommend going back to the simple email forwarding method that > you initially attempted. > This is what I do and I have had no problems. I have all emails sent to > my firstname.lastname at gmail dot com account automatically forwarded to > my preferred justfirstname at gmail dot com account. When they're received > at the former account, I have the original copies there marked as read and > archived while they're being forwarded to the latter. So even if I delete > the copies I receive at the latter, I still have them stored in the > former. This is all setup independently of O/S or browser or email program > so it doesn't matter what device I'm using to read my emails. That sounds fine, just what I would want to do. So give it another try if it's important to you. You probably just missed > completing the verification step as Marko suggested. Probably so. I did find a partial or temporary solution, which was simply deactivating the second account rather than deleting it. With this, I can reactivate the account if/as desired and the messages aren't lost. But I'll try turning forwarding back on and will carefully look out for the confirmation link this time. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
