Gmail pop3 problem

Gmail pop3 problem

[Burton Samograd]

Hi, 

I've spent the better part of my afternoon trying to get mail to and
from my machine through gmail's smtp and pop servers.  Sending is
working just fine through the compose-mail interface, but there's a
problem with fetching through pop.  I had some problems with not
having ssl.el, which went away once I installed it.  Now there are no
connection problems and it looks like the whole retrieval is going
just fine...except for the fact that it always says there are no
messages in the inbox (even though I can see them just find in my
firefox login).  Here's my configuration, but there really seems to
be only one example up on the net to do it so I don't know what might
be wrong:

(eval-after-load "mail-source" '(require 'pop3))
(setq pop3-leave-mail-on-server t)
(setq pop3-debug t)
(setq mail-sources                                   
      `((pop :server "pop.gmail.com"
	     :port 995
             :user "myemail@gmail.com"
	     :password ,password
             :connection ssl
             :leave t)))

I do use the backquote form so that I can keep my passwords all in the
same place, but really don't think that would cause any problems.
Here is the pop3 debug output that comes back:

+OK Gpop ready 29pf412862wrl
+OK send PASS
+OK Welcome.
+OK 0 messages (0 bytes)
.
+OK
.
+OK Farewell.
read:errno=0

so it looks like it's going through ok, but the messages aren't
getting reported.  I do have pop enabled on the account, not for *all*
messages, but only those from *this time forward*.  I send mail, it
does show up (I haven't read it using firefox, just checked to see if
they arrived) but isn't seen with pop.

Is there some flag or hidden switch for pop3 that might help here?  

-- 
burton samograd					kruhft .at. gmail
kruhft.blogspot.com	www.myspace.com/kruhft	metashell.blogspot.com

Re: Gmail pop3 problem

[Burton Samograd]

Burton Samograd <kruhftREMOVE@gmail.com> writes:
<snip>
> Is there some flag or hidden switch for pop3 that might help here?  

In my general form, I'll reply to the answer for my previous post.  It
turns out that my configuration wasn't wrong (see the previous for
that), but that my gmail pop settings were.  If you enable pop only
for mail from a certain time, it doesn't let you get it.  *But*, if
you enable it for all mail, it seems to come down fine, you just have
to wait for it all to come down (5000 messages and counting so far).

-- 
burton samograd					kruhft .at. gmail
kruhft.blogspot.com	www.myspace.com/kruhft	metashell.blogspot.com

Re: Gmail pop3 problem

[Hadron Quark]

Burton Samograd <kruhftREMOVE@gmail.com> writes:

> Burton Samograd <kruhftREMOVE@gmail.com> writes:
> <snip>
>> Is there some flag or hidden switch for pop3 that might help here?  
>
> In my general form, I'll reply to the answer for my previous post.  It
> turns out that my configuration wasn't wrong (see the previous for
> that), but that my gmail pop settings were.  If you enable pop only
> for mail from a certain time, it doesn't let you get it.  *But*, if
> you enable it for all mail, it seems to come down fine, you just have
> to wait for it all to come down (5000 messages and counting so far).
>
> -- 
> burton samograd					kruhft .at. gmail
> kruhft.blogspot.com	www.myspace.com/kruhft	metashell.blogspot.com

Really? It works ok with all other pop3 clients/MDAs I have tried including
fetchmail and evolution.

Re: Gmail pop3 problem

[Burton Samograd]

Hadron Quark <hadronquark@gmail.com> writes:

> Burton Samograd <kruhftREMOVE@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Burton Samograd <kruhftREMOVE@gmail.com> writes:
>> <snip>
>>> Is there some flag or hidden switch for pop3 that might help here?  
>>
>> In my general form, I'll reply to the answer for my previous post.  It
>> turns out that my configuration wasn't wrong (see the previous for
>> that), but that my gmail pop settings were.  If you enable pop only
>> for mail from a certain time, it doesn't let you get it.  *But*, if
>> you enable it for all mail, it seems to come down fine, you just have
>> to wait for it all to come down (5000 messages and counting so far).
>
> Really? It works ok with all other pop3 clients/MDAs I have tried including
> fetchmail and evolution.

Well, that's what I had to do to get something to come down at all.
There was new mail in my inbox but nothing would show up until I
checked the all messages...not a bit deal though, now I have a backup
of my gmail locally anyways.  Just a pain to get all of them... 

-- 
burton samograd					kruhft .at. gmail
kruhft.blogspot.com	www.myspace.com/kruhft	metashell.blogspot.com