[ubuntu-za] Gmail and Thunderbird

Frans de waal meesterarend at gmail.com
Fri Feb 7 06:24:41 UTC 2014


Lastmonts PCformat had a hack for this... not sure exactly about the
format... but generaly you type something infront of your username and then
it loads all mail not downloaded on the pc

Frans de Waal
cell: 076 639 8315
skype: meesterarend1

Wie plant en wie natgooi is nie belangrik nie. Die belangrike Een is God,
want dit is Hý wat laat groei.
1 Korintiërs 3:7
On Feb 7, 2014 8:08 AM, "Charl Wentzel" <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
wrote:

> Hi Guys
>
> I have a bit of a funny issue.  I recently upgraded my Wife from Ubuntu
> 11.xx to Mint 16.  (She didn't like Unity).  One of the major changes was
> the switch from Evolution Mail to Thunderbird.  (I tried the new Evolution,
> but couldn't solve the TNEF issue).
>
> The problem is that she has several devices downloading her emails;
> blackberry phone, tablet and her laptop.  But for some reason when an email
> is downloaded by the her phone of tablet first, it is not downloaded by her
> laptop!
>
> It looks like some POP issue.  It seems that once a device downloads the
> email, it is marked as "downloaded" on the server and then Thunderbird
> doesn't download it (again).  But why did Evolution not have this problem?
>  To get all the emails downloaded in the first place, I needed to "enable
> POP for all emails" under the Gmail settings.  Without it, it only
> downloads some emails, which I think confirms my theory.
>
> I don't have this issue with any other POP accounts on Thunderbird, and I
> also have several devices (3) downloading emails from several POP accounts
> (5).  So it seems specific to Thunderbird and Gmail.
>
> Anybody with any ideas? I haven't found something on the Internet that
> helps yet.
>
> Regards
> Charl
>
> PS: I'm pretty certain IMAP will solve the problem, but that's not an
> option.  Thunderbird creates creates a confusing set of folders for a Gmail
> account, which is goint to increase the amount of "support" I need to give.
>  Not going there! ;-)
>
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