On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 9:03 PM, K Ramnarayan <ramnaraya...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi > > Many years back i had posted to this list about a problem i was facing with > Mozilla thunderbird. > > The problem was that my net connection was a slow dial up (yep slower than 56 > kbps) and that i was getting a decent bit of mail in my gmail account (gmail > was setup through pop service in thunderbird) > > The problem was that thunderbird would not download all the mails in gmail. It > would simply give up after an unknown x amount of data. > > Searching for a solution - lead me to resetting gmail pop service to begin > downloading from the beginning (when i had access to broadband to download) > This too did not work and i was stuck with duplicate messages and having > thunderbird give up downloading anything beyond aug 2007. > > There were some solutions than used some command line tools through which i > could download to mbox or maildir folders / files. Tried this and for some > reason it did not work. Of course i did not try hard enough. > > Now in 2010 - yes with about 20000 un-downloaded mails in my gmail account > there appears to be a solution (appears because its still work in progress) > > The answer is Kmail - i set it up - imported messages from thunderbird, the > latest on it being from aug 2007, and since installtion kmail's been slowly > and steadily downloading my gmail mails to my HD location. Its slow (because i > think the net itself is slow) so hopefully in about 100 days i will catch up > to current times :-) > > why you may ask do i want to do this - well for some reason if gmail goes down > in the future, i hopefully will still have my mail and attachments > second even if there is no internet access i can still refer to communication > third - it makes searching (in combination with beagle) for stuff quite > effective > Fourth kmail seems smooth esp in combination with kontact etc > > So Just thought that after all the aggravation to the list about thunderbird > problems i should tell you that a resolution is underway > > regards > ram >
You didn't try fetchmail ? -Pawan -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in