Look at the instructions here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=1555

Pop access works, but gmail has a really *really* annoying feature.
You're limited to downloading only 200? 300? emails. So if you have a
lot of mail over the years, there's no way of downloading them locally
for backup.

I still like gmail, but very frustrated I can't download all of my email.
-Josh

On 6/4/07, Russell McMahon <apptech@paradise.net.nz> wrote:
> Is anyone here using POP3 email download with GMail and Outlook
> Express?
> If so, can you help with this problem?
>
> I'm attempting to setup Outlook Express 6 to receive email via POP3
> from GMail.
>
> To my great joy and somewhat surprise I find that I can SEND email via
> GMail using Outlook Express SMTP.
>
> BUT I can't make the download work
> Typical error message as per attached gif.
>
> I've followed all instructions (AFAIK) and used manual and automatic
> setup options.
>
> I'm wondering if my router (old Dynalink RTA210) is playing games with
> port 995, but it's not obvious (to me) that this is the problem.
>
>
>           Russell
>
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