On Wednesday 02 September 2020 13:35:32 Janek Stolarek wrote: > Three things: > > 1. Like others have already said, you need to enable access by unsafe apps > in Gmail account settings. See [1]. > > 2. In KMail POP3 settings you might need to prefix you POP3 username with > "recent:" (without quotes but with colon), so for example in KMail settings > my username is entered as "recent:jwstolarek@xxxxxxxxx" (again, without > quotes). This enables checking email by multiple mail clients (in case you > have several machines). See [2]. Moreover, for me without the "recent:" > prefix, instead of having access to newest emails as they come in, I would > only see email in a batch every few hours. > Whoa! That is one cool trick! It might be general knowledge for some, but it's news to me, and I never found anything like that among suggestions in Gmail's pages, nor on other sites who offer advice on how to for Gmail. (Doesn't work on Zoho mail, however; just thought I'd give it a try.) At least I managed to clear all the old emails off the server. > 3. Contrary to what other said, I rarely have problems caused by logining > in from different locations. I regularly use VPN so sometimes I'll be > checking my email from Switzerland and 5 minutes later I'm checking it from > Canada. I have no problems in overwhelming majority of cases. > Yeah, I was beginning to feel like some kind of shiftless pariah, banned from Google periodically, because I have moved from my home to the library, 15 minutes' walk from here. > Janek > > [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en > [2] https://support.google.com/a/answer/6089246?hl=en Thanks for the tip! Bill --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: trinity-users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: trinity-users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Read list messages on the web archive: http://trinity-users.pearsoncomputing.net/ Please remember not to top-post: http://trinity.pearsoncomputing.net/mailing_lists/#top-posting
