google mail and thunderbird -

Bob Goodwin bobgoodwin at wildblue.net
Sat Mar 1 17:43:20 UTC 2008


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.

Bob Goodwin

PS:  Since this change I don't seem to be able to send to 
the Fedora list?  I'm sending this a second time as a test.







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