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

Xavier Noria fxn at hashref.com
Tue Sep 11 17:22:18 PDT 2007


On Sep 11, 2007, at 10:55 PM, Linda wrote:

> On 9/11/07 3:49 PM, Stroller wrote:
>
>> I'm pretty sure that if you only download your gmail messages via pop
>> - myself I _never_ read the mail to my yahoo or gmail accounts via
>> the web-interface and the Linux box in the cupboard fetches all
>> messages from various ISPs & providers by POP3 - then messages posted
>> by yourself to mailing lists are not affected as this tech note
>> describes.
>
> If that's the case, I've not figured out how to get it to work that  
> way. I
> never read Gmail on the Web unless I'm on vacation, but I never get  
> my own
> messages back in Mail or Thunderbird on any group in which I  
> participate
> with a Gmail account.

Unfortunately (in my view) it's just the way it works:

   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py? 
answer=6588&query=mailing+list&topic=&type=f

Gmail help forums have some posts about it, the only thing you can do  
is to ask to have the behaviour changed:

   http://mail.google.com/support/bin/request.py?contact_type=suggest

I did.

-- fxn



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