Geoff Welsh wrote:
So, my mom, has an "upstairs Mac" and "downstairs Mac" both set-up for
SeaMonkey to "get messages" from the same @gmail.com address.
They both retrieve all the same messages every day (for years now), to
help her remember things, and save her the precariousness of carrying a
computer up or down stairs.
Today she tells me the downstairs Mac didn't get any of the messages
that the upstairs one did.
Did Google change something or was this a glitch in the matrix today,
Sat Aug 22, 2020?
Are you using IMAP or POP? If IMAP, then both machines should be seeing
the exact same thing.
If you're using POP, it is possible for sharing among multiple machines
(at least for the Inbox), but if you're doing that, you really want to
adjust your mail retention settings so that one POP client isn't
deleting stuff from the server when downloading, and the other machine
doesn't get to see that stuff. I do POP on my primary profile, and set
mail retention to not delete for 2 weeks, which allows any other
profiles I use (all IMAP) to always have the last 2 weeks of received
mail available.
Although it's possible that Google may have have had some sort of
temporary glitch, the other possibility would be that the upstairs
machine may have gotten its mail retention settings changed, somehow.
It's also possible that somehow, on the downstairs machine, the tracking
of POP status got confused. I don't remember the file name for that, so
I won't suggest what you could do to check.
At this point, you do want to take a look at the mailbox from a web
client, and see what's on the server.
Smith
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