Wildblue, gMail, and Mail

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Wildblue, gMail, and Mail

My connection to the internet is via satellite, with Wildblue. Just this week, Wildblue converted their email service to Google's gMail, and I'm having problems.

In the past, using Mail for POP3 service with Wildblue, Yahoo, and a local ISP, I was able to download my incoming mail to any number of computers. The mail remained on the ISP's server, and when I used Mail to log in with my PowerBook, it would pick up whatever messages it hadn't seen before, regardless of whether I had picked them up earlier on my G5 desktop machine.

This still works with my Yahoo POP account, as well as with my local ISP POP account, but it's not working now with gMail. If I pick up messages on the desktop machine first, Mail on the laptop doesn't see them. They're still there on the gMail server, and I have access to them via the web interface, but they seem to be flagged as having already been downloaded. In addition, none of the messages on the gMail server show up when I invoke Account Info (command-i) in Mail.

I really need to get this capablity back. According to Wildblue, IMAP is not an option. Is there some setting somewhere that I might have missed, either in Mail or at the gMail site? Or, is Mail just not capapble of playing well with gMail?

Thanks in advance,
Dave

2.5 GHz G5 Quad, Mac OS X (10.5.2)

Posted on Mar 1, 2008 3:53 PM

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Answer 1

mickek

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Mar 24, 2008 3:09 AM in response to mudhouse

We are in the same boat.
Let's help each other if someone finds a solution.
This is the biggest problem in gmail (which otherwise is very good)

Michael

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Answer 2

Mar 24, 2008 8:33 AM in response to mudhouse

I encountered the same issue.

POP3 access in GMail is really designed (as far as I can see) for access via a single client; it doesn't play well with multiple POP3 clients accessing the one mailbox.

There are some options you can toggle, assuming you have full access to the GMail settings.

The first would be to toggle the POP3 setting to ensure 'Enable POP for all mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)' is selected rather than 'Enable POP for mail that arrives from now on' - this will go part way to ensure both POP3 clients have access to all mail.

Secondly, you will also want to toggle the setting for what happens to mail once it's accessed by a POp3 client, you can choose here between 'leaving in Inbox', 'Archiving' which drops mail into the 'All Mail' folder and removes it from the Inbox and finally 'Delete' which will drop the mails into the trash.

Dependent on how you use your mail, there is another option that might be useful and this is how I decided to approach things. My iMac at home is set at standard POP3 though 'Mail', for my Macbook I use an application called 'Mailplane' which provides a fully featured front end to GMail. I therefore have full access to all my mail in GMail from my Macbook without battling the POP3 mail system - it might do the job for you? 🙂

http://mailplaneapp.com

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