Re: YAGAGT - Yet Another Gnus And Gmail thread!

[Sebastian Tennant]

Quoth Volkan YAZICI <volkan.yazici@gmail.com>:
> On Dec 3, 3:32 pm, Sebastian Tennant <seb...@smolny.plus.com> wrote:
>> I've been using fetchmail to retreive my email from Gmail quite happily
>> for a couple of years now, but I've just noticed that mail I send using
>> Gmail's SMTP servers appears in my Inbox, (in Gmail's website), but is
>> not available for download using POP3 (i.e., fetchmail)!
>>
>> How do you retrieve your email from Gmail?
>
> I don't have an idea about that. (By the way, neither fetched messages
> appear as "read" in Gmail's web interface.) It can probably be solved
> via IMAP. I use
>
>   (setq gnus-message-archive-group "nnml:sent")
>
> to archive sent message in gnus. To also archive messages sent via
> Gmail's web interface, you'll probably need IMAP again.

Thanks again Volkan.  It's a bug at Gmail's end, nothing else can
explain it.

I had this problem before... it has to do with their POP3 options.

There are three:

 1.  "Enable POP3 for _all_ mail (even mail that's already been downloaded)"
     [by which they mean 'archived', I believe]

 2.  "Enable POP3 for mail that arrived from now on.

 3.  Disable POP3.

Gmail's POP3 servers get 'stuck' sometimes and you have to toggle the
first two options to get them going... at least that's what I hope it
is.  I'll know more soon.

Sebastian