[ubuntu-in] OT: gmail sms recovery (was leina yar)

[Mehul Ved]

On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 15:29 +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote:
> So after about 2 years (2005, 06) of happy thunderbird and gmail
> syncing in 2007 something when wrong maybe a changed distro or
> something i cannot be sure and thunderbird stopped downloading gmail.
> (i have used thnderbird in dual mode - i.e used by both M$ and linux
> at the same time) and have upgraded thnderbird and the dsitribution
> editions (it has always been ubuntu since 2005).
> 
> In an attempt to rectify the situation i reached a place with
> broadband and attempted to restart the downloads - this is about mid
> 2007 when gmail / thunderbird got stuck. It did not work
> 
> I tried to migrate to evolution - this did not work
> 
> I redid my pop to again start from the begiining on a totally fresh
> thunderbird install - and after a few days (stop start because of
> internet access) it got stuck exactly at midway 2007.
> 
> After that i gave up , only recently i tried kontact and was happy to
> note that it had begun downloading my mails from the stoppped point
> and as of now its reached dec 2007.

After looking at this conversation, I decided to try out Evolution. I
have setup my gmail account with IMAP and am now attempting to download
all messages for offline use. Let's see if it is successful or not.