Evolution and gmail

[Arthur H. Johnson II]

On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 15:08 -0400, John Dangler wrote:
> On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 14:41 -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote:
> > I just got a new gmail account and have set it up in Evolution 2.10.0
> > (Ubuntu Feisty). I set up Evolution to chec my mail every minute, which
> > may be too often, but I prefer to get my messages as soon as possible.
> > The problem is that at times I get an error message that pops up and
> > tells me Evolution didn't receive a valid greeting from the server, and
> > sometimes it stops checking for messages so that I have to click
> > send/receive to start it checking mail again.
> You're not alone.  I'm running Edgy, and have been having the same
> problem with gmail... (Right now, in fact, I'm watching gmail time out
> waiting for a response to the pop server)..
> >  Is there a way to suppress
> > this error message and force Evolution to keep checking for new mail?
> > And a side question: is there a way to have Evolution pick up my mail
> > and notify me when new mail arrives without having it fully running on
> > my desktop?
> I believe there is a way in preferences to set a notifier, but I'll have
> to look and see if I can find it...
> > 
> > Thanks for any help,
> > Lorenzo
> 

I'm using evolution with Gmail Pop.  Pop.gmail.com has been up and down.

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Arthur H. Johnson II <arthur at johnsonfamilymi.us>