Better still, use IMAP and not POP. Works a treat and you won't have hundreds of unread emails.
Instructions on the gmail help pages, but to be honest it all just works. Russell On Sunday, September 13, 2009, Paul Owen <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Virginia, > > In the Settings area of the Google Mail website (after you have logged in to > your mail account) select the “Forwarding and POP/IMAP” tab, then in the > “POP Download” settings - select the radio button for “Enable POP for mail > that arrives from now on” > > Paul Owen > > From: Virginia <[email protected]> > Reply-To: <[email protected]> > Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 06:27:07 +0000 > To: Sussex Muggers <[email protected]> > Subject: [sussex_mug] Mail > > Help! I have 989 messages in the mailbox and they are still coming. I > thought that with my new MacBook Pro I would try out Mail program instead of > going to gmail through safari so added gmail to mailboxes. But Mail has > started to download all my emails from the past 6 years as unread. 989 so > far and the! are only up to 2006! How do I stop it doing this? How do I > get rid of them? If I select all and then delete, it copies them! I can > then erase all, but it is a real pain. It would be good to use Mail > because of it being on dashboard and immediately showng number of emails > waiting to be read.I hate the thought of all these email clogging up my new > hard disk. > > > > > > > > > > -- ---------------------------------------------------------- Manor Park Medical Centre www.manorparksurgery.com Tel 01323482301 East Sussex Local Medical Committee (Chair) www.lmcs.info/ Tel 01372389271 ---------------------------------------------------------- Have your say about NHS market reforms Visit www.lookafterournhs.org.uk --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Sussex Mac User Group" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/smug?hl=en-GB -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
