On Sat, 2010-04-24 at 15:29 +0530, Ramnarayan.K wrote: > So after about 2 years (2005, 06) of happy thunderbird and gmail > syncing in 2007 something when wrong maybe a changed distro or > something i cannot be sure and thunderbird stopped downloading gmail. > (i have used thnderbird in dual mode - i.e used by both M$ and linux > at the same time) and have upgraded thnderbird and the dsitribution > editions (it has always been ubuntu since 2005). > > In an attempt to rectify the situation i reached a place with > broadband and attempted to restart the downloads - this is about mid > 2007 when gmail / thunderbird got stuck. It did not work > > I tried to migrate to evolution - this did not work > > I redid my pop to again start from the begiining on a totally fresh > thunderbird install - and after a few days (stop start because of > internet access) it got stuck exactly at midway 2007. > > After that i gave up , only recently i tried kontact and was happy to > note that it had begun downloading my mails from the stoppped point > and as of now its reached dec 2007.
After looking at this conversation, I decided to try out Evolution. I have setup my gmail account with IMAP and am now attempting to download all messages for offline use. Let's see if it is successful or not. -- ubuntu-in mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in
