On Jun 4, 2007, at 7:27 AM, Joshua Shriver wrote:

> 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

You also can't POP already read/archived mail.  They do have a "fix"  
for this for mobile/other users that just want everything that's come  
in in the last 30 days... change your username to include the tag  
"recent"... like this: "recent:username@gmail.com" if you're finding  
you're not getting everything.

Gmail's POP access is utterly abnormal -- they want to push you to  
coming to the web interface where the advertisements (small and  
unobtrusive as they are) are at.

Yahoo is far more normal.

And I stopped using POP servers a long time ago.  IMAP is much much  
smarter, and all my mail's there on the server... no matter what  
client I point at it... POP's a by-gone era where the server  
shouldn't store things because drives were expensive, and modem lines  
were slow.

I hear good things about fastmail.fm for a really nice IMAP/POP (POP  
if you must...) provider for little money, but nice features.  They  
even provide WebDAV drive space, etc.  A little money, no hassles,  
nice servers... if you're not feeling like running your own server(s)  
for things.

--
Nate Duehr
nate@natetech.com



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