"I want them on my computer."

You want them on your computer until you lose all your correspondence to a
re-format, as recently happened to me.

On 1/19/07, Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
>
> Thanks, everyone who sent me this info.  Their instructions are clear and
> straightforward.
>
> I don't use my gmail account as a rule.  However I am having trouble with
> some organizations whose firewalls seem to block email from my
> alum.mit.edu
> forwarding thing.  Mostly forwarding works very well, so I don't want to
> change it.  However for those folks, until they can get my email listed as
> acceptable in their system I want to be able to send email from gmail.
> Hopefully they will use the reply-to that my email will give them, and
> answer to my alum address - but just in case, I want to make sure that if
> anyone emails me at gmail it will get downloaded.
>
> Microsoft Outlook is just as good at gmail at sorting out listservs or
> anything else I want it to sort.  And I don't want to save my emails on
> the
> web - I want them on my computer.
>
>
>
> Joy
>
>
> :::-----Original Message-----
> :::From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On Behalf
> :::Of mordo
> :::Sent: Friday, January 19, 2007 11:27 AM
> :::To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> :::Subject: Fwd: need gmail advice - NVC, not even jokes - but it is
> :::Fryeday!
> :::
> :::Joy,
> :::
> :::Go to your gmail setting page and go to the Forwarding and POP tab.
> There
> :::is
> :::a link to using POP with your gmail account.
> :::
> :::Alternately, you could simply forward your gmail messages to your
> primary
> :::account you use with Outlook.
> :::
> :::I will say that I don't know why you would use outlook with your gmail
> :::account. The gmail interface is really excellent for listserv use.
> :::
> :::mordo
> :::
> :::---------- Forwarded message ----------
> :::From: Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
> :::Date: Jan 19, 2007 11:09 AM
> :::Subject: need gmail advice - NVC, not even jokes - but it is Fryeday!
> :::To: vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com
> :::
> :::To anyone who can help -
> :::
> :::I'm trying to figure out how to get email sent to my gmail account to
> :::automatically download when I hit "send and receive" in Microsoft
> :::outlook.
> :::I've gone through the "add an email account" menus in outlook, and put
> in
> :::the following things:
> :::
> :::Type                                    HTTP - should it be POP?  I
> :::assume
> :::not.
> :::Email address:                          hecht.joy@gmail.com - that's my
> :::gmail address
> :::Username:                               it automatically filled in the
> :::gmail
> :::address -
> :::                                       should it just be "hecht.joy"?
> :::HTTP mail service provider:     "other" - the options are "hotmail",
> :::"msn",
> :::or
> :::                                       "other"
> :::Server URL:                             I tried "gmail.com" and I tried
> :::                                       "http://mail.google.com"
> :::
> :::In the "more settings" - "connection" - option I tried with "my LAN"
> and
> :::I
> :::tried with "3rd party dialer."  Sometimes I dial in on a regular phone
> :::line,
> :::sometimes I'm on someone else's wifi.  If I'm already connected, does
> it
> :::make a difference what I have for this option?
> :::
> :::In all cases I got this error:
> :::
> :::Task 'Gmail: Folder:Inbox Synchronizing headers.' reported error
> :::(0x80070057) : 'An unknown error has occurred. Please save any existing
> :::work
> :::and restart the program.'
> :::
> :::Can anyone tell me how I should do this?
> :::
> :::
> :::Joy
> :::
> :::
> :::--
> :::mordo
> :::1990 Carat
>

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