I said earlier: >On gmail.com the Status is: POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived >since 12/19/06 > >However, I renewed the settings for enabling POP also for messages that >have been already downloaded. This is a possible culprit. PM and gmail >obviously don't agree on what messages that have been downloaded because >of PM prematurely disconnecting and the gmail servers may have recorded >that all messages have been offered already and missed that the >connection was dropped.
After I had Enabled "POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)" in the gmail web interface, I was able to redownload up to about 3660 or so incoming messages out of 4000+ on the account. About 600 of these are outgoing so the numbers don't add up really. Please keep in mind that prior to trying with Mail some days ago, no other client have been downloading my new messages. So nothing like that can have affected that gmail have not given me messages since sep 13 2009 on this account. Day-fresh messages are now downloaded, which is great and is what I wanted. Unfortunately, other recent messages seem to have been lost. Because of the nature of Gmails interface it's hard to tell what the differences between messages are, there just are gaps, however small. This do seem like a repetition with the earlier experience with gmail and PM not agreeing on what have been downloaded or not. It seems google won't give active support with PowerMail as a client unfortunately. I also had many many of these messages arriving as duplicates, seemingly because of prematurely abrupted connections where PM keeps asking again and again for a specific segment until it have all messages within that (a guess, have not observed in detail), even if a particular message actually already is in the DB. It is possible this could be an interplay of gmail only giving 600 or so messages at at time and the "get remaining messages" setting in the account settings, but turning this off after the first connect didn't seem to affect this problem. I had up to 10-15 duplicates of some these messages. I deleted a majority of those duplicates with a script of mine, that compares the headers between the messages and leave only one copy in the DB. I can't rule out at the moment that my script didn't delete the missing messages, even though I have never observed non-duplicates being deleted before. It could also being something else interfering. I will look into that later. Currently it's hard to deduct exactly what's going on and I have other more pressing matters to attend at the moment. I'll send CTM an empty DB and see what they can find regarding getting all messages and hopefully also this matter with duplicates. MB Technoids: PM 6.0.3 build 4609 sv | OS X 10.5.8 | PowerMac G5 Dual 2.0 | 4GB / 1TB
