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Is there any way to "get mail" in Gmail or does it just
automatically come in?
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It just rolls into Google's mail servers. It's displayed whenever your
web browser automaticall refreshes, or can refresh your browser
manually whenever you want.

I'm surprised you'd even ask this question. You can see it happen when
you watch the Gmail window.
 
From: "Jeff T said:
Is there any way to "get mail" in Gmail or does it just automatically come in?
Jeff
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If you drink the Google k00l-aid, ask Google!

It isn't a XP question.
 
It just rolls into Google's mail servers. It's displayed whenever your
web browser automaticall refreshes, or can refresh your browser
manually whenever you want.

I'm surprised you'd even ask this question. You can see it happen when
you watch the Gmail window.
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Alternatively, Jeff should note that he can do Gmail using Outlook
Express or any other e-mail program. If you do so, you can "get" your
mail whenever you want to in the sense of having the mail that has
arrived transferred from Gmail's sever to your e-mail program.

As far as I'm concerned, doing e-mail in an e-mail program (whichever
e-mail program you prefer) is very greatly preferable to doing it on a
web browser and I highly recommend that Jeff do it that way. Jeff, you
can find instructions on how to set this up on the Gmail web site.
 
On 11/28/11 12:16 PM, Ken Blake, MVP wrote:

Alternatively, Jeff should note that he can do Gmail using Outlook
Express or any other e-mail program. If you do so, you can "get" your
mail whenever you want to in the sense of having the mail that has
arrived transferred from Gmail's sever to your e-mail program.

As far as I'm concerned, doing e-mail in an e-mail program (whichever
e-mail program you prefer) is very greatly preferable to doing it on a
web browser and I highly recommend that Jeff do it that way. Jeff, you
can find instructions on how to set this up on the Gmail web site.
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I do exactly that with Thunderbird.

--
Ken

Mac OS X 10.6.8
Firefox 8.0.
Thunderbird 8.0.
LibreOffice 3.3.4
 
From: "Ken Blake said:
Alternatively, Jeff should note that he can do Gmail using Outlook
Express or any other e-mail program. If you do so, you can "get" your
mail whenever you want to in the sense of having the mail that has
arrived transferred from Gmail's sever to your e-mail program.

As far as I'm concerned, doing e-mail in an e-mail program (whichever
e-mail program you prefer) is very greatly preferable to doing it on a
web browser and I highly recommend that Jeff do it that way. Jeff, you
can find instructions on how to set this up on the Gmail web site.
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http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=13287
 
Ken Blake said:
Alternatively, Jeff should note that he can do Gmail using Outlook
Express or any other e-mail program. If you do so, you can "get" your
mail whenever you want to in the sense of having the mail that has
arrived transferred from Gmail's sever to your e-mail program.

As far as I'm concerned, doing e-mail in an e-mail program (whichever
e-mail program you prefer) is very greatly preferable to doing it on a
web browser and I highly recommend that Jeff do it that way. Jeff, you
can find instructions on how to set this up on the Gmail web site.
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I usually use Outlook Express but the reason I was wanting a web based
e-mail was if my provider ever went down I could still get e-mail from
anywhere. The library for example.
Jeff
 
I usually use Outlook Express but the reason I was wanting a web based
e-mail was if my provider ever went down I could still get e-mail from
anywhere. The library for example.
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Doing what I suggest above lets you get it either way. You can use
Outlook Express normally, and the Gmail web site if your provider goes
down, or you are traveling and using a public computer at an internet
cafe.

Also note that it doesn't have to be Gmail to get this capability.
Most e-mail providers let you get POP3 mail through your e-mail
program *or* you can get your mail on their web site.
 
Jeff said:
Is there any way to "get mail" in Gmail or does it just automatically
come in?
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Your post is vague as you do not define what you mean by "get mail".
Obviously Gmail's SMTP POP/IMAP server cannot deliver to your local
e-mail client any messages that haven't yet been delivered to your Gmail
mailbox. Um, how can you "get mail" until AFTER someone has delivered
it to Gmail? You cannot pull e-mail into your account from nowhere.

Maybe you were asking about the feature where you can have Gmail poll
other e-mail accounts. That's just a guess based on your overly terse
post with absolutely no description of what you are trying to accomplish
with Gmail. You can pull it from other accounts by configuring Gmail to
poll those other accounts. You don't get to own Gmail's e-mail servers
so you don't get to configure when they poll the other POP accounts you
added to your Gmail account. You get to add the other POP accounts in
your Gmail account so Gmail will then periodically poll those other
accounts to retrieve e-mails from there. That way, you can use your
Gmail account as a collector account into which you can see/retrieve
e-mails delivered to your Gmail account and to those other accounts.
You get one place to monitor your e-mails.

Gmail lets you define up to a max of 5 other POP accounts that it can
poll for new e-mails. If you have more than 5 other accounts to poll,
you can chain multiple Gmail accounts together. In the first Gmail
account, define 4 other accounts to poll and the 5th entry is to poll a
second Gmail account. In the 2nd Gmail account, you poll 4 other POP
accounts and leave the 5th entry for another Gmail account. Thusly you
can chain together multiple "collector" accounts so you only have to
monitor the first one in the chain. However, because of the reduction
in polling interval (described next) when accounts are found empty, each
collector account in the chain will likely end up increasing their mail
poll interval up to the 1-hour maximum.

You do not get to configure when Gmail polls other POP accounts that you
added to your Gmail account. Gmail goes by their own schedule. It
starts out polling the other accounts at 5 minute intervals. When it
sees there are no e-mails to retrieve, the mail poll interval gets
increased. If Gmail repeatedly sees no e-mails to retrieve from the
other POP accounts and after repeatedly upping the mail poll interval,
Gmail will max out at 60 minutes between mail polls of the other POP
accounts. Gmail figures there is no point in wasting their resources
continually polling empty POP mailboxes so they gradually increase their
mail poll interval up to a maximum of one hour. They start polling at 5
minute intervals but could go up to an hour if what they poll is
continually found to be empty (no new e-mails to retrieve).

Using their webmail client, you could go into Gmail's options to look at
the POP account you added to your Gmail account. There is a link to
issue an immediate mail poll. This primarily to test that a newly added
POP account will work for Gmail to poll it.

Polling intervals at less than 5 minutes is considered abusive. You
aren't their only customer. They have limited resources to provide
e-mail services for hundreds, thousands, or millions of users. If there
are new e-mails to retrieve, it will take longer for you to acknowledge
the new e-mails, read them, act upon them, and then issue the next mail
poll. Why retrieve e-mails in a subsequent mail poll that you can't
look at yet since you're still busy with the first ones? With more
e-mails retrieved with each mail poll, it becomes even less likely that
it'll take you less than 5 minutes to read all of them. E-mail is not a
prattle client for immediate gratification. That's not how the e-mail
protocols were designed. For immediate gratification, look at using
prattle clients (aka instant messengers) for on-demand conversations.
 
VanguardLH said:
Your post is vague as you do not define what you mean by "get mail".
Obviously Gmail's SMTP POP/IMAP server cannot deliver to your local
e-mail client any messages that haven't yet been delivered to your Gmail
mailbox. Um, how can you "get mail" until AFTER someone has delivered
it to Gmail? You cannot pull e-mail into your account from nowhere.

Maybe you were asking about the feature where you can have Gmail poll
other e-mail accounts. That's just a guess based on your overly terse
post with absolutely no description of what you are trying to accomplish
with Gmail. You can pull it from other accounts by configuring Gmail to
poll those other accounts. You don't get to own Gmail's e-mail servers
so you don't get to configure when they poll the other POP accounts you
added to your Gmail account. You get to add the other POP accounts in
your Gmail account so Gmail will then periodically poll those other
accounts to retrieve e-mails from there. That way, you can use your
Gmail account as a collector account into which you can see/retrieve
e-mails delivered to your Gmail account and to those other accounts.
You get one place to monitor your e-mails.

Gmail lets you define up to a max of 5 other POP accounts that it can
poll for new e-mails. If you have more than 5 other accounts to poll,
you can chain multiple Gmail accounts together. In the first Gmail
account, define 4 other accounts to poll and the 5th entry is to poll a
second Gmail account. In the 2nd Gmail account, you poll 4 other POP
accounts and leave the 5th entry for another Gmail account. Thusly you
can chain together multiple "collector" accounts so you only have to
monitor the first one in the chain. However, because of the reduction
in polling interval (described next) when accounts are found empty, each
collector account in the chain will likely end up increasing their mail
poll interval up to the 1-hour maximum.

You do not get to configure when Gmail polls other POP accounts that you
added to your Gmail account. Gmail goes by their own schedule. It
starts out polling the other accounts at 5 minute intervals. When it
sees there are no e-mails to retrieve, the mail poll interval gets
increased. If Gmail repeatedly sees no e-mails to retrieve from the
other POP accounts and after repeatedly upping the mail poll interval,
Gmail will max out at 60 minutes between mail polls of the other POP
accounts. Gmail figures there is no point in wasting their resources
continually polling empty POP mailboxes so they gradually increase their
mail poll interval up to a maximum of one hour. They start polling at 5
minute intervals but could go up to an hour if what they poll is
continually found to be empty (no new e-mails to retrieve).

Using their webmail client, you could go into Gmail's options to look at
the POP account you added to your Gmail account. There is a link to
issue an immediate mail poll. This primarily to test that a newly added
POP account will work for Gmail to poll it.

Polling intervals at less than 5 minutes is considered abusive. You
aren't their only customer. They have limited resources to provide
e-mail services for hundreds, thousands, or millions of users. If there
are new e-mails to retrieve, it will take longer for you to acknowledge
the new e-mails, read them, act upon them, and then issue the next mail
poll. Why retrieve e-mails in a subsequent mail poll that you can't
look at yet since you're still busy with the first ones? With more
e-mails retrieved with each mail poll, it becomes even less likely that
it'll take you less than 5 minutes to read all of them. E-mail is not a
prattle client for immediate gratification. That's not how the e-mail
protocols were designed. For immediate gratification, look at using
prattle clients (aka instant messengers) for on-demand conversations.
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I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive button in Gmail,
like in Outlook and Outlook Express.
 
From: "Jeff T" <[email protected]>

I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive button in Gmail, like in
Outlook and Outlook Express.
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GMail is the name of Google's email. It is NOT the same as MS Outlook and Outlook Express
as they are email clients that can access any email server.

Either you access GMail email via an email client or you use Webmail, but you can't
compare email clients to the name of an email system.

You would specifically have to address it as "GMail webmail" so one can know you are
accessing the GMail email system via a HTTP front-end.

The same can be said for; Cox, Optimum Online, Verizon, etc.
You can't ask "I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive button in
Comcast, like in Outlook and Outlook Express."

Either you access Comcast email via an email client or via Comcast webmail. You *must* be
specific.

In the case of a system's specific webmail, it is NOT a WinXP problem, and should be
addressed within the organizational support system or a peer group that uses that
organization's email system.
 
David H. Lipman said:
From: "Jeff T" <[email protected]>



GMail is the name of Google's email. It is NOT the same as MS Outlook and
Outlook Express as they are email clients that can access any email
server.

Either you access GMail email via an email client or you use Webmail, but
you can't compare email clients to the name of an email system.

You would specifically have to address it as "GMail webmail" so one can
know you are accessing the GMail email system via a HTTP front-end.

The same can be said for; Cox, Optimum Online, Verizon, etc.
You can't ask "I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive
button in Comcast, like in Outlook and Outlook Express."

Either you access Comcast email via an email client or via Comcast
webmail. You *must* be specific.

In the case of a system's specific webmail, it is NOT a WinXP problem, and
should be addressed within the organizational support system or a peer
group that uses that organization's email system.
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Geez, sorry!!
Jeff
 
| I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive button in
Gmail,
| like in Outlook and Outlook Express.
|

It sounds like you haven't actually set up a
webmail account and want advice about whether
to do it. Webmail is crap. Webmail is convenient.
Gmail is spyware. Gmail is convenient. There are
pros and cons.

If you think you want webmail then why not
just try it? Then you'll know how it works. :)
 
Geez, sorry!!
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You're saying that as if you think he was insulting to you. But he
said much the same things that I would have said if hadn't done it
first. He's trying to help you by educating you, and I'm sure he
didn't mean to be insulting.

I'll repeat what I said earlier: you can use Gmail with either Outlook
or Outlook Express (or any other e-mail program). As Dave said, you
can't contrast them way you did.

Once again, I strongly recommend that if you use Gmail, you normally
do it with either Outlook or Outlook Express (or any other e-mail
program), not on the Gmail web site, unless you need to.
 
Ken Blake said:
You're saying that as if you think he was insulting to you. But he
said much the same things that I would have said if hadn't done it
first. He's trying to help you by educating you, and I'm sure he
didn't mean to be insulting.

I'll repeat what I said earlier: you can use Gmail with either Outlook
or Outlook Express (or any other e-mail program). As Dave said, you
can't contrast them way you did.

Once again, I strongly recommend that if you use Gmail, you normally
do it with either Outlook or Outlook Express (or any other e-mail
program), not on the Gmail web site, unless you need to.
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I guess I should say thanks!
Jeff
 
Mayayana said:
| I was just wondering if there is some kind of send/receive button in
Gmail,
| like in Outlook and Outlook Express.
|

It sounds like you haven't actually set up a
webmail account and want advice about whether
to do it. Webmail is crap. Webmail is convenient.
Gmail is spyware. Gmail is convenient. There are
pros and cons.

If you think you want webmail then why not
just try it? Then you'll know how it works. :)
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I didn't realize it but the webmail that I get through my provider is
accessable(sp?) through the web. I should have tried that when my computer
was down. I didn't realize it but I could have gone to a web cafe or
somewhere and gotten e-mail.
Sorry for the trouble.
Jeff
 
Once again, I strongly recommend that if you use Gmail, you
normally do it with either Outlook or Outlook Express (or any
other e-mail program), not on the Gmail web site, unless you need
to.
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Well, I *wouldn't* necessarily recommend that. It depends on how you
want to work your email. The nice thing about Gmail is that there is no
practical limit as to how much mail you can store there. You can leave
it there and access it from any computer on the Internet. If you use a
conventional POP3 email client like Outlook/OE, you will probably
download all the mail to that one computer and won't be able to get to
it from any other.

I get to my main (non-Gmail) account with a POP3 mail agent (Pegasus)
but I also keep a Gmail account that I only use their webmail
interface, or sometimes an IMAP mail program (Thunderbird.) All that
mail is available to me anytime, anywhere.

There's really nothing wrong with Gmail's web mail interface, for what
it is. I like it better than Verizon's.
 
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