Problem with GMail POP3 Access and a Solution
Because of my recent GMail fiasco I’ve been downloading all of my email to my computer. I’ve been able to download most of my messages, in fact I was able to get all of my messages until 9/1/2006. Then the pipe ran dry. Every time I logged into Gmail via Thunderbird the GMail servers would tell me that I had no new messages. After some research I found the GMail POP Troubleshooter.
The GMail POP Troubleshooter checks your Outlook or Thunderbird settings to determine any configuration problems. After running the tool it alerted me to the fact that the “Leave messages on server” setting is invalid as this is GMail default behavior (Help Center - Incorrect ‘leave on server’ setting). I changed the setting and my Gmail messages started downloading again. w00t.
Wednesday, December 6th, 2006