Gmail is quite something

[Gilles Gravier]

Hi, Karl!

Karl F. Larsen wrote:
>     I have been setting up Gmail to get this list and turned off the 
> list going direct to me. This is now working. You need to set up Gmail 
> by turning on IMAP and POP. These are complex functions that Gmail 
> offers to every free user. Being a POP server is really a lot of work.
>
>     I am still on Thunderbird on my main or laptop computer, and Gmail 
> sends the list to both places. Actually it gets the email on my Gmail 
> account, and then sends it to whichever Thunderbird calls for POP 
> traffic. Setting up the latest Thunderbird is simplicity itself. You 
> just click Edit - Account settings and select a new account and on that 
> panel select a Gmail account :-)
>
>     So my laptop which is off much more than on, gets updated with this 
> list every time I get Internet to the laptop. There is no easy way to do 
> this.
>   
It would probably be better for your to use IMAP with GMail. That way
you maintain coherence completely between the browser version and the
Thunderbird version. POP isn't good at coherence when multiple MUAs are
involved...

Gilles.