OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[lanzen]

On Friday 16 May 2008 19:42:56 Sylviane et Perry White wrote:

> The mails I send to this list appear in my Gmail mail box but *are not
> retrieved by KMail*.

What is happening is that GMail is not forwarding you _your_ sent mails. 
Everybody else sees them.

> This problem is not specific to this list nor (probably) to KMail...it is
> with Gmail according to sunrise technical support.
> I didn't have this problem until the provider that hosts my mail account
> (xxx at freesurf.ch)[pop.freesurf.ch] decided to close it and use something
> based on GMail instead (xxx at sunrise.ch)[pop.gmail.com]

I had a similar situation. You said you closed your previous account, do you 
have another one - not GMail - you can use? More about it later.

> All my apologies to ask this OT question but googling didn't help and I
> have no other better place to ask.
> Do some of you use a mail agent (KMail) with pop protocol and Gmail?
> How dou you manage?

It's been discussed already and it seems everybody has it's own (working?) 
solution. As you can see from the headers I *use* GMail to reach this list 
and get my mail with KMail.

What I do - works.

When sending to the list I've set up Kmail to use another SMTP. It can be your 
provider's, and in this case it might not require authentication, or any 
other SMTP, authenticated, but NOT GMail's.

Solution n. 2 is using Knode (or similar Newsgroup agent),

> Would IMAP be better?

It would if either:
	you don't have another usable SMTP
	you prefer IMAP vs POP

> Any other suggestion or place for help?

I've set up GMail, on their site, for IMAP.
Get mails in Kmail through POP
When on a different machine use IMAP (e.g. in Thunderbird).

> P.S. Of course it is possible to retrieve those mails in such a way that
> they intergrate in KMail's threads, but it's really an hassle.

Agreed! ;)

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lanzen