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On 8/26/06, Samuel Baldwin <shardz4217@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Unfortunately, the only time I have had any success with this was with the |
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> Windows port of Thunderbird. Otherwise, it only grabs about a hundred or so |
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> emails at a time, and will never get the latest emails. As well, the time |
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> (...) |
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Samuel, I've had similar problems with Gmail, but I'm not using |
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thunderbird. I was getting mail using standard fetchmail, delivering |
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them to a local maildir and then using good old mutt to display them. |
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I had to do this twice in the past, because my mailbox would fill and |
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I had to empty it, so I could keep receiving mails (*yes*, that's it, |
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I filled my 2.5gb inbox twice). |
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The problem I had was getting the mails in some strange order, and |
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only by the hundreds. As I had about 30000 emails, I had to keep |
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fetching and deleting until I got all mail. It's a bit weird, but I'm |
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pretty sure this isn't an issue with thunderbird, but an issue with |
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Google's POP server. It just doesn't show all your messages if you |
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have lots of them. Maybe they do this to avoid trouble, as if the |
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connection is broken before the client sends the QUIT command, the |
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messages are not deleted. |
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Of course, I had Gmail set to delete mail already received via POP, I |
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haven't tried without this set. |
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Bruno Lustosa <bruno@×××××××.net> |
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http://www.lustosa.net/ |
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