Issue Solved - really quite simple in the end (see end of mail) <div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Aug 23, 2010 at 11:31 AM, Gora Mohanty <<a href="mailto:gora@sarai.net">gora@sarai.net</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Have been using claws-mail for a couple of years now, and am happy with it. It downloads from my Gmail accounts (both POP3 and IMAP4) without issues. Have even synced close to a couple GB of mail once. I suspect that downloading stopping might be more due to network issues. </blockquote><div>Am not sure what the issues where but even on the fastest network i could find i.e, on US University connections thunderbird and kmail failed their tests so now am using the hack to get my gmail off line first and now into claws. </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;"> Not sure what you mean by "importing Maildir". As usual, Google turns up many likely-looking links. Here are a couple from searching for "gmail claws download": <a href="http://www.claws-mail.org/faq/index.php/Installation_and_Configuration#Does_Claws_Mail_work_with_Gmail_accounts.3F" target="_blank"></a> </blockquote><div> The solution : After claws in setup and you have your account in place the justr drag and drop the individual maildir files into appropriate folders - Yes simply drag and drop - it could not be easier. This is so wow So problem solved. thanks ram </div></div>