Gmail troubles

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Jeff Needle

Has anyone else had trouble with gmail? At first I was very happy with
it, but now there seem to be so many problems -- mostly I can see the
mail on the server, but it won't download with pop3. Three messages
just got stuck, I had to go to the server and delete them from there.

I may have to change my email address again, it's such a pain in the ass.
 
Has anyone else had trouble with gmail? At first I was very happy with
it, but now there seem to be so many problems -- mostly I can see the
mail on the server, but it won't download with pop3. Three messages
just got stuck, I had to go to the server and delete them from there.

I may have to change my email address again, it's such a pain in the ass.
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I experience the same issues with Gmail, and like yourself I have to sign-
on manually to retrieve/delete stuck email. I have some relief by using
Popeeper (http://www.poppeeper.com/), which allows me to manage my email
locally verses having to go to the web interface each and every time.

Good Luck,
FM
 
Has anyone else had trouble with gmail? At first I was very happy with
it, but now there seem to be so many problems -- mostly I can see the
mail on the server, but it won't download with pop3. Three messages
just got stuck, I had to go to the server and delete them from there.

I may have to change my email address again, it's such a pain in the ass.
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No problems here. Just sent 3 test messages from other accounts (Yahoo,
Lycos, Hotmail) all delivered and retreived via pop3 (Evolution 2.2.3 on
Mandriva Linux 2006) within minutes. Still haven't got outgoing smtp to
work yet though!

Regards
Gordon
 
Father said:
I experience the same issues with Gmail, and like yourself I have to sign-
on manually to retrieve/delete stuck email. I have some relief by using
Popeeper (http://www.poppeeper.com/), which allows me to manage my email
locally verses having to go to the web interface each and every time.

Good Luck,
FM
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Thanks. I may have to switch if it keeps up. You'd think a big company
like Google can fix stuff like that. Oh well.

Happy new year to all.
 
On Tue, 27 Dec 2005 10:05:49 -0500, Jeff Needle wrote:
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My problem I believe stems from very large uploads/downloads. It may be a
result of an over-taxed gmail server. Personally I can't complain being
that the service is free and all.

FM
 
Father said:
My problem I believe stems from very large uploads/downloads. It may be a
result of an over-taxed gmail server. Personally I can't complain being
that the service is free and all.

FM
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Yup, can't scream about the free part. My problem is that there are
other free servers. If gmail continues to have problems, I'll have to
look elsewhere.

Thanks for your input.
 
Father Merrin said:
I experience the same issues with Gmail, and like yourself I have to sign-
on manually to retrieve/delete stuck email. I have some relief by using
Popeeper (http://www.poppeeper.com/), which allows me to manage my email
locally verses having to go to the web interface each and every time.

Good Luck,
FM
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Thank you thank you thank you! I've been looking for one app that would
check *all* my e-mail accounts, but never found one that checked Excite. I
must be incredibly dense for overlooking Popeeper, but I'm sure glad I read
your post.
 
Thip said:
Thank you thank you thank you! I've been looking for one app that
would check *all* my e-mail accounts, but never found one that checked
Excite. I must be incredibly dense for overlooking Popeeper, but I'm
sure glad I read your post.
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Glad I could help.

FM
 
One quick and easy solution to the pop3 viewing problem is to use gmail's
forwarding option instead of manually trying to retrieve emails with the
pop3 protocol. This assumes you have another email server, which I do.
Gmail reliably forwards new emails to a server of your choice and
optionally retains copies for itself, or deletes them.
 
I dont' have any problems with gmail and popPeeper here but then I
rarely download through it, I just check to see what's there and
download when I'm bored from the web interface.
 
One quick and easy solution to the pop3 viewing problem is to use gmail's
forwarding option instead of manually trying to retrieve emails with the
pop3 protocol. This assumes you have another email server, which I do.
Gmail reliably forwards new emails to a server of your choice and
optionally retains copies for itself, or deletes them.
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Hmmm, I've heard some reports of problems with forwarding. Thanks for the
hint, tho.
 
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