[ubuntu-za] Gmail and Thunderbird

[Quintin van Rooyen]

>
> Hi Quintin
>
> Agreed, but it all comes down to who you are dealing with.
> Unfortunately not everything works for everybody.
>
>
Apologies, was on mobile and only read this part of your mail.


> Charl
>
> On 07/02/2014 09:05, Quintin van Rooyen wrote:
> > Pop is designed to work like that, imap would solve the issue.
> Yes, but each email client operates individually, it keeps track of the
> email it download to ensure it doesn't get downloaded again.  An email
> downloaded by one client should should not be ignored by another client.
>
> My experience with pop and multiple devices on gmail (with the setting
"on" for leave gmail's copy on the inbox) has been that whichever device
downloads the email first marks it as downloaded and then other devices
simply don't see it.




> > 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.
> Gmail creates its own set of folders which appears in a separate folder
> called "GMail".  It contains a bunch of sub folders, e.g. Drafts, Sent
> Mail, etc.  Its effectively a duplicate of the existing email in the
> folders created by Thunderbird.  This operates very different from the
> POP3 setups in Thunderbird.  If you delete an IMAP email, it is tagged
> as "deleted" and then moved to the "Trash" folder under "Gmail", and not
> in the Trash folder created by Thunderbird.  Effectively the folders
> created by Thunderbird is ignored.  If you have a couple of POP3
> accounts and a Gmail account, this very quickly gets confusing because
> the operation is inconsistent.  I can handle this, but not everyone is
> so willing to accept the "weirdness"
>
> > 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.
> Yep, tried that, but the Gmail web interface isn't purely a mail client,
> it tries to do other things too, and the new tabbed inbox just adds
> complexity.  It's operation isn't entirely intuitive.  You know how it
> is when someone asks you an IT question and simply expect that you
> should immediately know the answer, but then you have to sit down and
> figure it out while the person glares at you because you can give them a
> straight answer.  Since the Gmail web interface put me in that spot, I'm
> pre-conditioned not to like it. ;-)
>
>
> I would suggest using pop on her PC and then the gmail app on the other
mobile phones/tablets. Best of both worlds.



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