The Case of the Missing Characters

[Claude Jones]

On Fri February 2 2007, kwhiskers{ wrote:
> but google doesn't. I can send to google, but not receive
> reliably. When I try to receive, nothing happens, so I log in and the mail
> is there. I set pop enabled and it sets a time, the time of my last email.
> I log out and download and all mail comes. I send another, and same thing.
> It won't come and I have to log in and reset pop enable again and the time
> now is the time of this next letter, etc. Strange.

Not enough info to say. I have two google accounts. I have all mail sent to 
each automatically forwarded to one of my regular ISP accounts. But, I have 
smtp set up one of them, and that works reliably. I also used pop for awhile, 
but for reasons I no longer remember, I stopped doing it that way. I've got 
seven different addresses I manage, and my system is convoluted, but works 
well for my situation. I can check my mail from any of many machines I might 
be working at during the day. During those checks, the messages are 
downloaded but not deleted from the servers. Late in the night, I have one 
archival machine that downloads from all the accounts and deletes the 
messages from the servers at that point. I have a central archive that way, 
but, can always get my mail from anywhere during the day. Some day, I'll have 
to get around to setting up imap, but, it's not on my high priority list 
because what I've got is working well. 

-- 
Claude Jones
Brunswick, MD, USA