On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 9:57 PM, Camaleón <noela...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 04 Sep 2011 21:28:21 +0800, lina wrote: > >>>> the icedove is smart, the gmail is autoconfigured. >> >> A bit unexpected, by browser, my gmail for debian mailing list I only >> kept recent 1610 emails (around). >> but the icedove was busy downloading, reached 6 thousands and more. >> >> Frankly speaking, I removed the icedove again. >> >> and back to check emails on iceweasle. >> >> It's a better choice for me I guess. > > Before setting up your Gmail account to use it with your e-mail client > you should first "clean up" your inbox/folders because you can have
inbox/folders ? I have inbox and different folders ( folders are not in the inbox directory). clean up? > stored there thousand of messages that can take very long to download. > > Were you using POP3 or IMAP to get your Gmail's e-mails in Icedove? IMAP. P.S Before I tried the icedove, mainly just wanna download thousands of emails from windows live account to backup (It's kind of "official" email box I used for years). Right now I wonder I maybe do backup in different machine, such as use outlook. will try another time. Thanks again, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/cag9cjmkj92mx6yj3zp4bcf3pjc-5pqjvd5ayurkbnyg9obw...@mail.gmail.com
