google mail and thunderbird -
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Sat Mar 1 18:27:05 UTC 2008
On Sat, Mar 1, 2008 at 6:17 AM, Bob Goodwin <bobgoodwin at wildblue.net> wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>
> > Marc Schwartz wrote:
> >>
> >>> Can someone tell me how to deal with this mess? At least point me in
> >>> the right direction. I am still in shock and not sure what to do
> >>> next!
> >>>
> >>> Bob Goodwin
> >>
> >> You can access GMail just like any other POP or IMAP e-mail server.
> >>
> >> Start here or do a Google search for "Thunderbird Gmail":
> >>
> >> For POP:
> >> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12805
> >>
> >> For IMAP:
> >> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12806
> >>
> >> You can retain the filters in Thunderbird after fetching the e-mail from
> >> Gmail or use the Gmail labels and filters to organize the e-mail into
> >> virtual folders for using the Gmail web interface.
> >>
> >> Take a deep breathe and do some reading... :-)
> >
> > One way to use gmail is to grab everything with POP either directly
> > from a mail client, or with fetchmail and dump into your own IMAP
> > server if you use several clients. These days you can use IMAP
> > directly with gmail but since gmail lets you save an enormous amount
> > of mail it can be slow when you connect a new client. You can
> > configure gmail to archive a copy when you download via POP. This
> > lets you delete your copy as you read it, but still be able to access
> > it later if you use the gmail web interface.
> >
> Thanks to all for the help.
>
> I finally have things working with POP, Thunderbird, and Wildblue/Gmail.
>
> Ports 995 and 587 had to be opened in the firewall and there was some
> resubscribing stuff peculiar to the ISP required. The user name had to
> have @wildblue.net appended to it, etc.
>
> E-mail appear to be working normally once more; I am reconfiguring my
> mail filters and all is happiness and light again.
>
You don't normally have to open up ports to which you are sending data
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