Gmail is broken. Or its POP forwarding is.
Beats me, but since yesterday (around 5pm) Gmail has given up forwarding email by POP to me. I can see it if I go to the browser: tons of new mail. But it’s not being collected by Mail. It spins and comes back - nope, nothing there.
Annoying. And there’s no easy way to find out where the error lies either.
Anyone else troubled by this?
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August 17th, 2006 at 9:15 am
Gmail POP forwarding is working fine for me as of this morning - although I’m using Thunderbird, not Mail! Might help to disable forwarding and then re-enable it?
August 17th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Until about six weeks ago I had never received a single piece of spam through Gmail - now I get between 5 and 50 every day.
August 17th, 2006 at 10:28 am
Gmail switched off my POP forwarding at irregular intervals but fairly often, at least a couple of times per month. POP can be re-enabled on the web site, but I got fed up doing this so now use a different email service.
August 17th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
A negative result, for balance:
I’ve never had a problem with GMail POP forwarding. It’s certainly more reliable than my ISP which I won’t name but begins with a “P” and ends in “lus.net”…
It did just mark an email from Apple as spam, not sure if that’s a good thing or a bad thing…
August 17th, 2006 at 11:50 pm
..well, it came back on this morning: first I had to check the email each time to force a single message to come over, and then they began to come as a flood, until I think they’re OK now.
But it’s disquieting. It’s the sort of thing that makes you uncomfortable - you don’t quite trust it any more. Used to work perfectly; now it behaves capriciously. Faith lost is never found again.
August 17th, 2006 at 11:51 pm
Oh, but I get nary any spam. It’s almost all stopped at the Gmail border, so I get perhaps one or two per day - and then Mail (with its Junk mail recogniser) spots it and bins it.
OTOH I get mostly only spam on my mac.com account. Terrible. And Mail isn’t any good at recognising it. Gmail beats mac.com hands down on that one.
August 18th, 2006 at 9:07 am
POP has misbehaved before but not lately. I use POP to backup Gmail into Thunderbird so I have a local copy. A POP download sometimes repeatedly retrieves single messages of a batch as you describe, then floods in on a later attempt.
As for spam, around 40 drop into Gmail’s spam folder every day - Gmail should just delete them. Perhaps two a week get through to the inbox. I think Gmail is a good service despite the odd hiccup.
August 20th, 2006 at 1:32 am
I have been plagued by GMail Pop forwarding problems for some time. In my case I found out that the problem was my IPCop firewall (with Copfilter, another spam filter) that was causing the problem. I turned Cofilter off and everything seemed to go smoothly after that.