Re: [Logicmail-users] logicmail only downloads old emails

[Kelly H. <kch...@gm...>]

Thanks to both of you. I did switch to IMAP, and it's working now. I had always used POP before I had webmail, so I didn't think anything of it. 

On Thu, 3 May 2012 22:17:27 -0500, Dave Warren wrote:
> On 5/3/2012 3:17 AM, Derek Konigsberg wrote:
> > Kelly,
> > The problem is that GMail's POP support is kinda broken.  Here's the
> > somewhat technical blog post where I investigated the issue:
> > https://www.logicmail.org/blog/gmail-web-imap-pop
> >
> > The short answer is that GMail is actually sending me the data you're
> > seeing, when I tell it to "send me the latest messages".  If you switch
> > to using IMAP instead of POP, things should work a lot better.
> >
> 
> You could also try using the "recent:" setting which will bypass some of 
> the oddities of Gmail's POP3 server.
> 
> http://support.google.com/mail/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=47948
> 
> Using IMAP is simply a better solution across the board.
> 
> -- 
> Dave Warren
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> 
> 
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