Gmail question

[TwoRails]

I finally got around to setting up my other computer to get gmail. It works but the problem is that only one or the other system will get new gmail, but not both.

Any ideas on how to set it up to get gmail on both machines?

TIA

[faulkner132]

It's web based, so what exactly is the problem?

[Panama Red]

Are you using Outlook with your gmail? I think I noticed that in another thread. If so, you need to change the Outlook setting that allows the gmail items to stay on the gmail server rather than remove them and store them in Outlook.

[faulkner132]

Ahh, I see.
Even easier, there is a setting in Gmail under the "Forwarding and POP" tab which tells Gmail what do you when you access your mail via POP. You can just change the setting to tell Gmail to keep a copy of the message in your inbox.

[TwoRails]

Using OE, and yes I have it checked to Leave messages on the server on both machines. I'm thinking it's something on the server itself that recognizes that my specific logon / password has already picked up the mail. I can go to Gmail and all the messages I've every received are still there. Any other ideas??

[faulkner132]

Originally Posted by faulkner132 Even easier, there is a setting in Gmail under the "Forwarding and POP" tab which tells Gmail what do you when you access your mail via POP. You can just change the setting to tell Gmail to keep a copy of the message in your inbox.

Did you check this?

[TwoRails]

No, I haven't.. sorry -- There is one additional option there that was not in the screen shots I saw over in their forum. That is

Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)

I don't have any POP options checked at this point. If I check that one, do you know if every time I check gmail, it'll download *all* gmails again? I saw that was a big complaint with the beta version (back then that option wasn't there, but there was a work-a-round)

[faulkner132]

Originally Posted by TwoRails If I check that one, do you know if every time I check gmail, it'll download *all* gmails again? I saw that was a big complaint with the beta version (back then that option wasn't there, but there was a work-a-round)

I don't see why it would download them all again. POP works off of timestamps, so it should only download anything between the current time and your last connection.

[Stuey]

If you check "Enable pop for all mail" and then download all of the messages, go and change the settings back to "Enable POP only for mail that arrives from now on". If your computers are set to only download and not remove mail, and gmail's settings are set to not touch pop downloaded mail, it should then work as you desire.

[TwoRails]

Sorry, haven't been around much. I'll try out those tips this weekend!

[TwoRails]

No joy... from reading gmail's forum, I don't think it's going to work as I want. Yes, I went into settings and changed them, but then you get All emails until you set it back. Not desired, and way, way too much work deleting all the duplicates. Seems like the work-around is to create a second account and then use forward function.

edit: typos

[around2it]

gmail has a utility program for checking your pop3 settings,i used it and it allowed me to connect
check it out

[TwoRails]

Thanks, I'll check it out but don't know if it'll help much as I'm getting the mail OK... maybe there's a secret switch there.

[juppy]

Hi TR!
I don't know exactly how this would work, but I got to looking through the help section at the Gmail site and found something that sounds like the same problem you're having.

The question was this:

I have Outlook at work and at home. How do I configure Gmail so that I can retrieve the same emails on both computers? Currently once I retrieve the mail with one computer the other will not retrieve it even though it is still in the Gmail inbox.

And the answer they gave was this:

You can have two email clients downloading the same content as Gmail offers you a fantastic option. It depends on where you want all your mails to be downloaded. Lets say, you check your mails in office via a POP client, your mails download there. You come home, fire up your outlook at home and you need the same mails to be downloaded there too. In this case, fire up your email account configuration and before your username eg. [email address] add the word recent:. It should appear as "recent:[email address]" w/o quotes. And voila, both your email clients download your emails. Only problem is each and every email will be having two copies.

Now, I wasn't real sure where they meant to put that at.....I'm guessing maybe in OE under Tools>Accounts, then selecting the Properties of the email addy you use to check the Gmail with, and under the General tab is the only place I see the email address listed. If not there, then I don't know where it would go. And if you want it that way on both computers, would you put that "recent:" stuff in front of the email addy on both machines or just one? Sorry I'm not much more help. Just thought maybe this might be what you're looking for and help you out.

[glc]

You would put that in the username section.

[TwoRails]

Hi juppy (how ya doing?) I'll check into that a little further, but it'll probably get "pushed to the right" due to the holidays and the general lack of time. It's just that I use gmail for folks to send all the "big" stuff to me and I'd like my proverbial BetterHalf to get the same stuff on her system as I do on mine. (My ISP has a cap of 10MB, and that is for total email, not just the size of one email )