Gmail - can't leave on server

K

Keysaw

I haven't had any problems getting email from GMail, but I can't get
it to leave the messages on the server. I have several other accounts
on different servers, and they all work fine.

I want to leave the emails I download on the server for 3 to 7 days,
or until I explicitly delete them. This works fine with SBCGlobal and
my local email server, but once GMail is downloaded, the messages
disappear on the server. Entourage says they are still on the server
until the next time email is checked, but going online via the web
interface confirms that they are already gone.

The question is, is this a problem with GMail or Entourage?
 
T

Tom Stiller

Keysaw said:
I haven't had any problems getting email from GMail, but I can't get
it to leave the messages on the server. I have several other accounts
on different servers, and they all work fine.

I want to leave the emails I download on the server for 3 to 7 days,
or until I explicitly delete them. This works fine with SBCGlobal and
my local email server, but once GMail is downloaded, the messages
disappear on the server. Entourage says they are still on the server
until the next time email is checked, but going online via the web
interface confirms that they are already gone.

The question is, is this a problem with GMail or Entourage?
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Gmail saves everything by default; you have to instruct Entourage to
delete messages if that's what you want. Did you look in "All mail?"
 
L

lmcfarlin

Gmail saves everything by default; you have to instruct Entourage to
delete messages if that's what you want. Did you look in "All mail?"
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I think the original poster wants GMail to actually make mail
available to multiple clients. This is similar to the "Leave On
Server" of other POP mail providers.

This doesn't work on GMail. If one email client reads a message, that
message will not be available to other clients. You'll have to log on
to www.gmail.com and read it there.
 
K

Keysaw

I think the original poster wants GMail to actually make mail
available to multiple clients. This is similar to the "Leave On
Server" of other POP mail providers.
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Actually, I wanted to be able to log on to the web version to reply to
certain messages. Someone else pointed out the new settings in GMail
that allow the messages to remain so I can access them there.

Keysaw
 
N

Neal Reid

This doesn't work on GMail. If one email client reads a message, that
message will not be available to other clients. You'll have to log on
to www.gmail.com and read it there.
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Huh? How can it know? On the Gmail web page, click settings the
Forwarding and POP then insure "When messages are accessed with
POP" is set to "keep Gmail's copy..." and you can get it as many
times as you want with as many clients as you want - modulo the
following para.

The POP Status need's to be reset to "Enable POP for ALL MAIL" if
you want to do that (get a another copy). It appears Gmail does
not support Unique IDentification Listing so GMail resets Status
to "POP is enabled for all mail that has arrived since <last time
you checked>" every time you use a client to check otherwise you'd
re-get ALL mail every time you checked.

A true POP3 with "leave on server" set uses UIDL to get around
that. What do you expect from a free service?
 
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