[ubuntu-za] Gmail and Thunderbird

[Quintin van Rooyen]

Hey Charl.

Pop is designed to work like that, imap would solve the issue.

I am not certain about what you mean about the weird folder issue though.
Imap syncs both ways so if you make a folder in tbird the same would appear
as a label in google and vice versa.

Hows about letting her use the web interface? I know we are all anti
Google, but that is the best way of using gmail imo. In fact, I don't even
have a mail client installed atm.

Bonus is that if you are away from the house she can give you her password
and you can solve an email issue for her by logging into her account.

If you are worried about offline, if you use Chrome/Chromium you can have
the last 30days of gmail available offline as well as offline editing of
Google docs (including spreadsheets as of recently).

Use the google apps tool on her devices (iPad/iPhone/Android) and
everything should work together nicely.

In fact, if you reallyreally want to go Pop on Thunderbird, use the Google
app on her mobile device and work around the pop issue.

Regards


On 7 February 2014 08:24, Frans de waal <meesterarend at gmail.com> wrote:

> Lastmonts PCformat had a hack for this... not sure exactly about the
> format... but generaly you type something infront of your username and then
> it loads all mail not downloaded on the pc
>
> Frans de Waal
> cell: 076 639 8315
> skype: meesterarend1
>
> Wie plant en wie natgooi is nie belangrik nie. Die belangrike Een is God,
> want dit is Hý wat laat groei.
> 1 Korintiërs 3:7
> On Feb 7, 2014 8:08 AM, "Charl Wentzel" <charl.wentzel at vodamail.co.za>
> wrote:
>
>> Hi Guys
>>
>> I have a bit of a funny issue.  I recently upgraded my Wife from Ubuntu
>> 11.xx to Mint 16.  (She didn't like Unity).  One of the major changes was
>> the switch from Evolution Mail to Thunderbird.  (I tried the new Evolution,
>> but couldn't solve the TNEF issue).
>>
>> The problem is that she has several devices downloading her emails;
>> blackberry phone, tablet and her laptop.  But for some reason when an email
>> is downloaded by the her phone of tablet first, it is not downloaded by her
>> laptop!
>>
>> It looks like some POP issue.  It seems that once a device downloads the
>> email, it is marked as "downloaded" on the server and then Thunderbird
>> doesn't download it (again).  But why did Evolution not have this problem?
>>  To get all the emails downloaded in the first place, I needed to "enable
>> POP for all emails" under the Gmail settings.  Without it, it only
>> downloads some emails, which I think confirms my theory.
>>
>> I don't have this issue with any other POP accounts on Thunderbird, and I
>> also have several devices (3) downloading emails from several POP accounts
>> (5).  So it seems specific to Thunderbird and Gmail.
>>
>> Anybody with any ideas? I haven't found something on the Internet that
>> helps yet.
>>
>> Regards
>> Charl
>>
>> PS: I'm pretty certain IMAP will solve the problem, but that's not an
>> option.  Thunderbird creates creates a confusing set of folders for a Gmail
>> account, which is goint to increase the amount of "support" I need to give.
>>  Not going there! ;-)
>>
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