Hi Ram >For the last year and a half my thunderbird as totally frustrated me - >it downloads messages (from gmail) only intermittently - as a result my >most recent message - is from about August 2007.
It is quite possible that the problem is with gmail and not with Thunderbird. If you can try your Thunderbird with some other mail service, that might give you some indications. For example, if you can open an account at aol.in and set it up for pop access (I have details for imap access but not pop access handy) and see if that works well for you. I had corresponded with gmail staff some time ago and found that one can not download mails more than once, and if you try to download mails older than 1 month, then things get messed up. I have had problems similar to yours with other mail clients (Eudora, Evolution ...) with the gmail pop access. Regards, Moz -- ubuntu-in mailing list ubuntu-in@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in