Powermail said: >The problem here is that others didn't report any problems like that. This means only that the problem isn't widespread. Nevertheless it affects the heart of PowerMail. I'm far beyond believing that this can only be affecting my accounts and my Macs. What it could be is something related to the history of my DB (current and earlier versions), but in the end that actually shouldn't affect the function of getting messages. Whatever the history, PM should be able to query the mail server about new messages and get them all. No? >or does this mean PM doesn't recognize the status of a mail as being >unread and not retrieving it? > >- I've never seen this. >Could you be a bit more clear about what happens? It's an intermittant problem it seems, but when it's active it stays. This is the problem in a nutshell with my current account that displays this problem:
At the outset of using Gmail in PowerMail on 2 different accounts I attempted to download every message for both accounts, which PowerMail and the server wisely choose to do in chunks of a few hundred messages**. I left them all on the server I think, but I'm not sure actually. After many rechecks all messages actually were downloaded on one account at least. The other problem-affected account stil haven't got all messages even as I set it to redownload every message (currently 4000+) at one point. Over time PowerMail continues not to download all messages that actually are on the server on one gmail account, while downloading seemingly every message on my other (this one). So the symptom is that PowerMail check for new mail and there isn't any. But on the server, if you check via IMAP in PM or in the web interface, there are indeed messages. The delay can be measured in days at a minimum. I can not be sure that some messages are never downloaded. Hopefully PM will download the messages at the server that haven't been downloaded at some point. But this year actually, I discovered not that not one (!) of the messages received on server on the problem account have been downloaded. >Can you also post the settings done under Account - Receiving. It's very normal and yes, I've left messages on server for both accounts. Receiving Protocol: POP3 ID: my email POP: pop.gmail.com Connect secure: SSL, dedicated secure port: 995 Leave copies of fetched messages on server >the problem won't go away by itself magically. Well, duh'! >I assume there is either a problem with your special settings or >somewhere else. There's nothing special about them. >You need to find the source of problem, else it can't be solved. That's why I have asked for ideas on how to diagnose the problem. I'm going to post the support at Gmail and see what they say. I will also try another email application again and get all messages from the problem account. I'm not holding my breath however. MB Technoids: PM 6.0.3 build 4609 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1TB ** There is another related problem in that if the connection to the server is ended prematurely which can happen if you want to get all messages on the server, then PowerMail will redownload messages it actually already have downloaded. This results often in duplicates. I have thousands of duplicates in my message DB on the working account, even as I wrote a script to get them out. I got tired of doing that all the time I guess and gave up. Built-in duplicate message handling in PowerMail would be extremely useful.
