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Date:         Fri, 19 Jan 2007 16:24:21 -0800
Reply-To:     Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Jake de Villiers <crescentbeachguitar@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: need gmail advice - NVC, not even jokes - but it is Fryeday!
Comments: To: Joy Hecht <jhecht@alum.mit.edu>
In-Reply-To:  <5hbed6$ag7e62@smtp01.lnh.mail.rcn.net>
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"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 >

-- Jake 1984 Vanagon GL 1986 Westy Weekender "Dixie" www.crescentbeachguitar.com


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