Re: Viewing contents of inbox

Eduardo Chappa wrote:
On Sun, 29 Apr 2007, kernelcfg@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

:) Imap is configuered like:
:) Nickname: blahmail
:) Server: mail.blah.com/ssl/user=_user_
:) Path: inbox
:)
:) Pop is configuered like:
:) Nickname: Gmail
:) Server: pop.gmail.com/pop3/ssl/user=_user_@xxxxxxxxx
:) Path: inbox

I think that your problem is that you think that this is the way to
configure access to a folder. You are accessing a collection. IMAP allows
to access collections, but not POP. The path variable is like a directory
where folders are placed. In a pop3 server, inbox, is a folder, not a
collection.

You can add your gmail account to the incoming-folders collection, which
is the most sensible thing to do. I have found, however, pop3 access in
gmail to be unreliable at best. For example, I can only see my messages up
to November 2006, once a message is read, it is deleted from subsequent
sessions, etc.

I have information in my web page on how to configure access to an
incoming folder. See below

I'm hopelessly confused about this stuff, too. :-(

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