[X4U] Anyone retrieved Gmail msgs with Apple Mail via POP???

Linda XPressoBean at mac.com
Mon Sep 10 13:07:58 PDT 2007


On 9/10/07 3:03 PM, Joshua Hough wrote:

> Gmail offers POP access to your inbox, but I can't make Apple Mail see
> the messages.  I turned on POP in Gmail's settings, and configured the
> POP account correctly in Apple Mail (latest version, OSX Tiger),
> following Gmail's setup specs exactly.  Gmail's settings window says
> "Status: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since 11/14/04."
>  Apple Mail logs into Gmail successfully, but says there's no new
> mail.  Which is not true, of course.  Anything I'm missing?

I can get Mail to "see" four of my Gmail accounts, but there are two that it
will not pick up, no way, no how. For those two accounts, I use Thunderbird,
which picks them up just fine. I can't explain it, but, you're not alone.

~Linda




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