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From: cheltenhamrobin

Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2008 15:38:57 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Tues, Apr 8 2008 6:38 am

Subject: Re: Fixing POP problems in 1-2-3 steps

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Hi. I have a similar problem and am pretty much tearing my hair out. I
use Googlemail to retrieve messages from another server (Business 1st)
which use a non-Google email address. Following a problem in receiving
messages, I contacted my ISP who told me to change my POP3, which I
did. However, although I am now receiving emails from the other server
via Google, which is what I wanted, I'm also being inundated with
literally thousands of old messages, mostly spam. I've so far deleted
over 14,000 old messages and am at the end of my tether! There seems
to be no way of stopping these repeating messages.

Thanks in advance if you can help.

Chris

On Mar 19, 7:39 pm, Gmail Guide Yellow wrote:

> Ever encounter one of these problems with POP?

> - Your messages suddenly stopped downloading
> - You have to re-enable POP every time to continue downloading
> messages
> - Only some messages are being downloaded while others are being
> skipped
> - The same message is being downloaded over and over again
> - ALL your messages are being downloaded again

> If so, here are 3 simple solutions that can help fix your problem:

> 1. Try enabling recent mode in your POP client by replacing
> "[email address]" in the Username field of your POP client settings
> with "recent:[email address]", and configure your POP client to
> leave mail on the server. Recent mode only fetches the last 30 days of
> mail, so it's ideal if you don't want your smartphone to download
> thousands and thousands of messages. Disclaimer: If you don't leave
> messages on server in your mail client settings, your messages may get
> moved to Trash after download. For more information on recent mode,
> check outhttp://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=47948

> 2. If you're not using recent mode, ensure that your email client is
> NOT configured to leave mail on the server.

> 3. Try deleting the entry for your Gmail account in your POP client
> and then re-adding it with all the correct settings.

> If these steps don't resolve your problems, check out Gmail IMAP!

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