Re: New imap problem

[Jack <ostroffjh users sourceforge net>]

Hi andré,


On 07/14/2018 01:55 AM, andré via balsa-list wrote:
> Le 2018-07-13 à 16:04, Jack via balsa-list a écrit :
> > That started all of this was a sent message I managed to not save a 
> > local copy of.  Problem with gmail is once you have downloaded a 
> > message by pop3, there seems to be no way to reset it to download again.
>
> That is one of the reasons why I stopped using gmail.  Other services, 
> such as Yahoo, don't have this problem.
I haven't found any service which doesn't have some problem or other.  
Believe me, I wouldn't use it purely by choice.  This is an account from 
my alumni association, so it's a free educational account, and I like 
having the address associated with my university.  Yahoo doesn't have 
this problem, but it has plenty of others, and getting actual help is 
equally impossible.
> ... The other thing I sometimes check is the spam folder, since there 
> seems to be no way to download it anyway and make my own spam decision 
> locally.  In an attempt to turn down gmail's spam threshold, I need to 
> use their web access to mark as not spam - unless anyone has a better 
> way.
>
> Don't think there is a better way.  In my experience, even marking 
> many emails as not spam, gmail would still often mark legitimate 
> emails as spam.  As well as missing real spam.
What I'd really like is to allow even spam to be downloaded by pop3.  
Then I could completely ignore the server's opinion. Recently, Yahoo has 
been filtering a lot of stuff into the Bulk Mail filter, but I have no 
idea why they do that instead of spam, which all of it is.

Jack