Gmail or Thunderbird problem?

[Pat]

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
> Pat wrote:
>   
>> I have a Gmail account. I use Thunderbird on my desktop. Starting 
>> yesterday I stopped getting most of my mail. It's on the server and I 
>> can access it online with no problem, but only one or two of the lists I 
>> am on download. I also have no problems sending mail, but if I send mail 
>> to myself I don't get it either.
>>
>> Does anyone have any ideas why this would suddenly start happening after 
>> months of stability? And no, I haven't changed anything on my system. 
>> The only thing I do regularly is run update manager and install new 
>> patches and updates.
>>
>> I have release 8.04 Kernel 2.6.24-22-generic. GNOME 2.22.3
>>
>>   
>>     
>     Hi Pat, I just got Gmail working on this Hardy and my laptop  8.10 
> and they are both using IMAP. So the question I need to ask Pat, are you 
> using IMAP?
>
> Karl
>  
>
> I was using POP, but I did switch to IMAP after this issue cropped up
> and it made no difference. Now for the really weird thing -- I went
> onto the Gmail site and deleted a bunch of mail I didn't want. All of a
> sudden my email started downloading. Is it possible there was an email
> that was somehow holding it up? There wasn't anything really large in
> the queue.
>
> Pat Brown
>
> pat.mysterywriter at gmail.com
> www.pabrown.ca
>
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