Interviewed by CNN on 05/12/2013 15:15, Ray_Net told the world: > NOW with Gmail and his POP access. > I have a Gmail-box and i have some problems. > I can have the list of mails residing on the gmail-pop-server as many > time i want with PopTray. > BUT !!!! When i read a mail using PopTray .... this mail disappear in > the list of mails on the Gmail-pop-server. > BUT !!!! when i donwload mails using SM ... all mails disappeared in the > list of mails on the Gmail-pop-server. > This is not the case with my isp-mailbox. > And, very strange ... Gmails are still in an unread state when accessing > the gmail-box by the web-interface.
One thing one has to keep in mind about Gmail... it has *very little* in common with other mailservers and webmail products Most webmail products are just a web-based IMAP client connected to a standard mailserver. Or, to put it another way, a standard POP/IMAP/SMTP mailserver with a webmail front-end tacked on. Gmail was done as a webmail first (with its own custom storage engine). POP and IMAP were tacked on later, and compatibility was somewhat compromised wherever it conflicted with the Gmail design approach. So, there are some oddities. One major oddity is how Gmail processes POP deletion requests -- instead of actually deleting the message, it by default only "hides" the message from POP clients (although I think this behavior can be changed in the Gmail settings). Another oddity is that spam filtering cannot be turned off. Which is really annoying for POP users, because there's no way to check for false positives. On IMAP, one major oddity is that messages will show up more than once -- one in the folder they are supposed to be, once in the "Gmail/All Messages" folder, and sometimes once in the "Gmail/Important" folder. Meaning that they will be downloaded two or three times. Fortunately, that's an easy fix: just unsubscribe those two folders. Overall, I found that Gmail is a fair-to-good IMAP server, but a mediocre-to-bad POP server. -- MCBastos This message has been protected with the 2ROT13 algorithm. Unauthorized use will be prosecuted under the DMCA. -=-=- ... Sent from my Z-Machine. * 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
