Interviewed by CNN on 05/12/2013 04:44, andré told the world: > I've switched all my gmail account to other providers, since I also use > POP access, and with POP (or IMAP) access, anything gmail has classified > as spam is invisible, and is automatically deleted if not reclassified > in 30 days. Unfortunately there is no way around this, and gmail is > very aggressive in classifying emails as spam.
There is an undocumented workaround, however. You can set up a filter inside Gmail that tags *all* incoming messages as "not spam." I used to do that back when I used POP and/or auto-forwarding in Gmail. Nowadays, with IMAP, it's not really necessary -- I just check the Spam folder regularly (once or twice a month). And, in my experience, the Gmail filter is pretty good at identifying spam. I have a few -- very few -- false positives, so I keep checking the Spam box, but I don't think it's any worse at that than other spam filters I have used in the past. There was a time when my work account was incredibly flooded with spam (about one hundred a day!), but once my employer moved it to Google Apps it ceased to be a problem. The only Gmail "feature" that still annoys me (and there's no known workaround for it) is that it "deduplicates" messages. It's really annoying when you subscribe to mailing lists -- particularly if you subscribe to several related lists, where cross-posting is not uncommon. Due to the auto-deduplication, you don't see the messages you sent to the list, either, since it "duplicates" a message that is in your "sent items" folder. > You can with at least gmail, but I wouldn't recommend it. IMAP is > designed to store everything on the server, and only selectively > download emails to read. It is more useful for corporate environments > where several users access the same email account. > POP is easier to configure for what you need. Actually, in these days of multiple devices accessing the same account, IMAP is great for home users too. I have my phone, my home computer and work computer accessing the same accounts, and all folder organization, read status, flags etc. are kept neatly synced between them. I also have the same folder organization, read status etc. if I need to use webmail for some reason. Yeah, many home users will instead use a single webmail account. This doesn't work for me because: 1. I hate webmail. 2. I don't have a single account, I have about ten. 3. Webmail is crap. It lacks significant functionality of dedicated clients, and it's slow. 4. No, I don't want to consolidate. I have excellent reasons for segregating different uses into different accounts. 5. Did I mention that I dislike webmail? > 2) You can configure mozilla to never delete messages. > So do that on the machine where you don't intend to read or keep all > your messages. > Under email account configuration / server parameters : > [x] Leave messages on the server > ... [x] Until I delete them. > > 3) On the machine where you intend to read and keep all your messages : > Configure to delete after a maybe a week, and not right away, in case of > some glitch. The default is 3? days. As the OP has said, he is already using a delete-after-90-days setting in his POP access. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Lego Mindstorms. * Added by TagZilla 0.7a1 running on Seamonkey 2.22 * Get it at http://xsidebar.mozdev.org/modifiedmailnews.html#tagzilla _______________________________________________ support-seamonkey mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/support-seamonkey
