Les Mikesell wrote:
Marc Schwartz wrote:
Can someone tell me how to deal with this mess? At least point me in
the right direction. I am still in shock and not sure what to do
next!
Bob Goodwin
You can access GMail just like any other POP or IMAP e-mail server.
Start here or do a Google search for "Thunderbird Gmail":
For POP:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12805
For IMAP:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/topic.py?topic=12806
You can retain the filters in Thunderbird after fetching the e-mail from
Gmail or use the Gmail labels and filters to organize the e-mail into
virtual folders for using the Gmail web interface.
Take a deep breathe and do some reading... :-)
One way to use gmail is to grab everything with POP either directly
from a mail client, or with fetchmail and dump into your own IMAP
server if you use several clients. These days you can use IMAP
directly with gmail but since gmail lets you save an enormous amount
of mail it can be slow when you connect a new client. You can
configure gmail to archive a copy when you download via POP. This
lets you delete your copy as you read it, but still be able to access
it later if you use the gmail web interface.
Thanks to all for the help.
I finally have things working with POP, Thunderbird, and Wildblue/Gmail.
Ports 995 and 587 had to be opened in the firewall and there was some
resubscribing stuff peculiar to the ISP required. The user name had to
have @wildblue.net appended to it, etc.
E-mail appear to be working normally once more; I am reconfiguring my
mail filters and all is happiness and light again.
Bob Goodwin
