Tried to check further on missing mail. Having been born way before 1980, I am feeling handicapped.
Checked spam folder, and trash . Nothing of interest there. Most of the mail I *think* I am missing would be straightforward stuff, a lot would be gmail-to-gmail. Interesting people if you knew them, but boring content. Another showed up missing. Clicking on *details,* I looked at my activity information and found three different IP addresses. Mine (laptop and droid sharing a number) plus two others that appear to have accessed my account while I was offline from a power outage last night. Those two link back to Verizon. (I use FiOS.) Is this customary? I had the impression that my IP was my IP, uniquely. As for switching from IMAP to POP, I am afraid that the meaning is lost in a thick fog of cluelessness. Is there a short explanation that would not test your patience? Or a resource you could point me to? Thanks for your time. On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 11:07 PM, Andy <ai.eg...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Dec 8, 2013 at 4:16 PM, Paul Slattery <pdslatt...@gmail.com>wrote: > > The only recent change in my account is that I added an android and still >> have not figured it all out. But I don't *think* any gmail correspondence >> is being routed to it exclusively. (It can't, can it?) >> > > No. The mail messages are not routed anywhere, except to Google's > servers. (And then a *copy* of it might be retrieved by your computer if > you use POP or IMAP to download those messages instead of using Gmail's web > interface for viewing your email.) > > However, a mobile device *can* delete the message on Google's servers, if > it is set up to do that. So watch out for that. (That's about all I know > about that.) > > Things can prevent messages from reaching your Gmail account, including an > incorrectly addressed message. It might look like it was addressed to you > but it could have a typo in the address that prevented its delivery. Also, > some email servers might have (inappropirately) 'blacklisted' Gmail, which > might prevent messages that pass through them, from reaching you. > > Regards, > Andy > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Gmail-Users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Gmail-Users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to gmail-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to gmail-users@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/gmail-users. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
