On 19/03/2010 9:37 AM, Tobias Jung wrote:
MB<[email protected]> wrote (Fri, 19 Mar 2010 13:54:25 +0100):
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
You've got thousands of messages on a POP server?
Well, I'd call that special...
Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying that an email client doesn't need to
be able to handle such an amount of messages. It is, in my opinion, a
special case nonetheless which might explain why no one else seems to
have the problem you do.
Kind regards,
Tobias Jung
I don't think you understand. Gmail is ostensibly an IMAP service,
basically another email service "in the cloud". :-) It is a service
designed so that one never needs to delete mail and is accessible anywhere.
However, it does have a POP front end as an alternative way in. Same
mail store, different method. At work I have my copy of T-bird (PC,
3.x) configured to access both my gmail accounts using IMAP. At home on
my Mac I have PowerMail configured to use POP to access the same
accounts. In both the PM configurations, the account is set to leave
the mail on server indefinitely, thereby mimicking the effect of IMAP.
As a result, you *could* say that I too have a POP server account
instance with "thousands" of messages on it. It even seems to have my
"sent" messages as well sent from my POP instance at home. Nice
feature. :-)
