IMAP access to GMail - Outlook 2003 or Thunderbird

NeilF

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I currently have my partner's googlemail account setup as a regular pop3/smtp account in Outlook 2003.

I'm wondering if there would be any benefit of changing this to IMAP so all her emails instead stay up on googles server.

I'm wondering if anyone can comment on how well this works? Is Outlook 2003 as good as say a more modern client like Thunderbird?
 
ocmanus said:
It works absolutely fine. As for the client outlook 2003 would work ok. What OS is running?
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Windows 7.1

The problem would be the account is currently set up as a pop3 (download) at the moment.

So this existing account will in effect have to be closed so it no longer downloads from google?

And then another new account would have to be set up to IMAP from google, and it used to set up all the desired folders (that were in the old account).

The old account would then just be an archive, with the new account being used.
 
I'm pretty sure that POP3 mails from gmail are not removed from the server even if downloaded, so I think you could get everything back that was already in the "old" account as long as you didn't select the "delete Gmails copy" option in your gmail settings. Otherwise, the way you have suggested above is how I would do it with the least amount of hassle.
 
ocmanus said:
I'm pretty sure that POP3 mails from gmail are not removed from the server even if downloaded, so I think you could get everything back that was already in the "old" account as long as you didn't select the "delete Gmails copy" option in your gmail settings. Otherwise, the way you have suggested above is how I would do it with the least amount of hassle.
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I believe it does currently remove (delete) it, so her googlemail account is empty.

So the existing outlook emails (pst) would become an archive... and we'd start afresh with an IMAP setting. Guess the beauty of the IMAP is we could try Outlook and Thunderbird and see which she prefers?

Does using IMAP save on disc space on your PC? ie: It doesn't download all your emails still does it?
 
Unfortunately it still does download them, but I know on Mac Mail (for example) you can instruct the client to not pull the content unless you open up the mail i.e. it will only give you the subject and not the content or attachments. I'm not sure if all other clients can do this, but suspect they do.
 
ocmanus said:
Unfortunately it still does download them, but I know on Mac Mail (for example) you can instruct the client to not pull the content unless you open up the mail i.e. it will only give you the subject and not the content or attachments. I'm not sure if all other clients can do this, but suspect they do.
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Ahh! So there's no real data saving as such then on the PC itself? I guess the benefit is mutliple sources can all happily co-exist off the one account. ie: HE phone could then also access her email!
 
ocmanus said:
Yep you got it. Why not just use the web client? Or is offline availability required?
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She just doesn't like the web interface. That said there are a few options to make it more traditional (eg: like not joining up emails/replies etc).

Anyway, if we go down the IMAP route, it would see the logic approach!
 
Sorry, a quick Thunderbird question...

When I send an email, it sits there, showing the status of the transmission for X seconds...

Frankly I don't care about this, and only want to be told if there's a problem obviously.

I want to get on with something else.

Is there a way to get it to simply send it "silently"?
 
t31os said:
Pretty sure this still works for current Thunderbird versions, personally i've got use to it.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=thunderbird+hide+sending+popup

Check a few of the results and you'll find the solution.. ;)
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I've (already) tried that, and a couple others. All that does is not display the progress bar, which actually makes things worse. ie: It continues to show you the message you've entered and supposedly sent, sitting there on the screen for numerous seconds, with no suggestion of what is going on.

You should press SEND, and the message instantly disappear while it simply sends it in the background and while you get on with something else.
 
I only use TB as a home email client, so it's a non-issue for me(don't send many emails), i can understand how that would be annoying if you're managing emails for work all day though.

Sorry it wasn't much help.. :(
 
t31os said:
I only use TB as a home email client, so it's a non-issue for me(don't send many emails), i can understand how that would be annoying if you're managing emails for work all day though.

Sorry it wasn't much help.. :(
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Just seems an obvious flaw IMHO. You press SEND and just want to get on with something else... not watch your message sitting there on the screen for numerous seconds. It could simply do the sending in the background leaving you to move on... (I've raised the question on the Mozilla forum it seems to obvious)
 
If you find a solution, I'd be interested to hear how you did it... touch wood there is a solution to be found.
 
Forward slashes in folder names in google seems to screw things up for Thunderbird.

I had a folder called "EBay / Paypal / Gumtree" and that created nested folders Ebay > Paypay > Gumtree.

I've had to rename them all in GMail (web app) to not have "/" chars in!
 
t31os said:
If you find a solution, I'd be interested to hear how you did it... touch wood there is a solution to be found.
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Options > General > Config Editor (bottom right)

Set:-
mailnews.sendInBackground TRUE
mailnews.show_send_progress FALSE
 
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