Sun never sets, therefore Shetlands often rather hot and somewhat muggy.

Ranulph


On 2 Aug 2011, at 07:05, Ana Iaria wrote:

> Will try.
> 
> I am in a very bad mood today ;-) and when things start playing up....
> 
> First it was a Windows program for I which I downloaded the newest build. 
> There was a glitch and then I couldn't connect to server where I am working 
> on. Downgrade the version. Then Mail. And the reason for my bad mood is this 
> hot weather, which I hate. Should move to the Shetlands in the summer ;-))
> 
> Ana
> 
> On 02/08/2011 11:50, Russell Brown wrote:
>> 
>> Ana, perhaps just go and get a coffee or lunch and let the computer/server 
>> synchronise?  Once its done the initial sync, individual episodes of syncing 
>> don;t take long and happen in the background anyway.  I use Gmail, mostly on 
>> the web, but use Mail too so I have an offline copy of stuff should I need 
>> it (lots of meetings).  Given I work at different machines, having the 
>> account set up as IMAP is very helpful.  It does mean that if I've not used 
>> the macbook for a few days, the sync takes a while, but its usually only a 
>> couple of minutes at most.  The first time I set it up and it was syncing 
>> about 15GB of data took a while though.  But its a background task, so it is 
>> possible to get on with stuff while its doing it.
>> 
>> Sam's summary of the differences is to the point.  Having made the switch 
>> myself some years ago, I struggle to see why someone would want to choose 
>> POP over IMAP but as Sam says, redoing the account with the wrong password 
>> on purpose will pull up other options including using POP and still allow 
>> you to input the correct password before you commit.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Russell
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>> On 2 August 2011 11:43, Sam - MacAmbulance <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Hi Ana
>> 
>> If you incorrectly type your password on purpose while setting up the 
>> account, mail wont default to imap, it'll ask for more details, then you can 
>> choose pop.
>> 
>> Regards
>> 
>> Sam
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>> On 2 Aug 2011, at 11:39, Ana Iaria <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>> > On 02/08/2011 10:58, Sam - MacAmbulance wrote:
>> >> Hi Ana
>> >>
>> >> If you enter your password incorrectly, Mail should ask you for more 
>> >> information, then you can select pop instead of IMAP but I would 
>> >> definitely recommend IMAP!
>> >>
>> >>
>> > Thanks Sam, password was correct.
>> >
>> > My problem is that whenever it checks emails it stays forever in loop 
>> > downloading very old messages. I never used IMAP as I never liked and now 
>> > it takes forever to check email. Will stick to TB until I can find out 
>> > where to revert to POP.
>> >
>> > I never managed to work with IMAP in seamless way.
>> >
>> > Ana
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