Not sure if this is the right way to ask but ..
A while ago I added a account to my Gmail using the POP3 settings of my hoster. Now, all e-mails are in Gmail, and not on the original server anymore.
Is there anyway to redo this? So get all mail, from the POP3 account, back to the original server. So I can connect with IMAP again?
Hope someone can help, not sure if this is the right place though. If not, let me know and I'll look for the answer somewhere else.
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Apart from creating a few websites and using it for my own domain to receive my mails, I haven't done much with plesk. When setting up the server, a friend helped me and suggested to me back then (3 or 4 years ago) to use the forward functionality provided by plesk to forward all mail to my gmail address. In gmail i just added my mail-address in the "send mail as" list so I can also send my mails from there.
I'm just wondering now if there is any reason why I shouldn't just let gmail directly check my mail-inbox via POP3.
Sorry, I'm really new to all this mail-server stuff, but I would like to get some input from some more experienced users if there are any security concerns with any of those methods or if it doesn't matter at all.
The problem with pop3 is that you download all mails from your mail-server itself. So the mails were retrieve and were downloaded from the server at the time. This can be a problem if you use a mail-client and store all mails there. In this case you're not able to retrieve your mails at the webmail for example, because the mails are stored in the client.
I would recommend to use IMAP so you can check your mails from the plesk-server at your mobile-phone, mail-client or webmail.
I am hosting the email for one of my domains at Gmail. I then run an IMAP client on my local computer to read and send email. Totally standard.
I now want to move the hosting for that domain to another email provider, where I will again run an IMAP client to deal with the mail.
Question: What happens to all the messages that are currently on Gmail? I THINK that they will stay in place, and I'll be able to access them via gmail.com and/or a Gmail app. But maybe not? Maybe Gmail will somehow find out about the MX change and decide that it should delete them all, because Reasons. Or it can't find the messages on its own server because the MX has changed, and so won't let me see them. Or something. In any case, losing access to these old messages would be Very Bad.
So, which is it? Will the world behave the way that I'm 99% sure that it will, such that I'll still be able to go to gmail.com and read the old messages after the switch? Or do I need to move the old messages somewhere else before making the hosting switch? Thanks for helping with my paranoia!
Google doesn't care what domain you use to route emails towards your Gmail inbox. If you change your domain to use another email provider, you will still have your existing Gmail inbox, until you shut down your Gmail account. So any existing emails in your Gmail inbox will be left untouched.
The same goes for any other hosting provider.
I've recently installed Canvas LMS on a cloud server. Everything was ok, except for outgoing mails. I'm really new at this, and I don't know how it works. I would appreciate very much if someone could help me with some doubts...
1- What is correct?
a) address: smtp.gmail.com
b) address: "smtp.gmail.com"
Which data should be quoted in outgoing_mail.yml?
2- I've tried filling the fields with my personal gmail address info, but I receive a warning mail about suspicious activities. That means that Canvas actually tries to connect to my gmail account. That's a good sign! But even when I tell to gmail that I recognize this activity, it won't let me continue...
When I enter the Yahoo's smtp information, nothing happens... not even a warning mail...
3- I wanna know if I have to run "canvas_init restart" everytime I edit that configuration file. And "/etc/init.d/apache2 restart"?
I really need your help!! Many thanks in advance!!!
This seems like a fairly obvious thing but I can't figure out how to do it and am hoping one of your geniuses can help me out!
We have a Gmail email account and then a ticket system that checks that account and sends an auto-reply to the sender saying that the email was received. This is checked via POP3 but can also be done via IMAP if necessary.
What I want is this: For certain messages, I'd like to file them immediately in Gmail and have them go to a special folder and have them NOT be checked by the ticket system. That's all.
I tried creating a filter in Gmail to move them, skip the inbox, mark as read, all of that. They still get picked up by the ticket system.
I thought POP3 only checked the INBOX on any server, so I expected that if I skipped the inbox then it would not be accessible. This doesn't seem to be the case.
Please let me know if there are any tricks I can do.
Thank you so much!
Ben
The problem that you are running into is that when connecting to GMail via POP3, you are actually accessing the "All Mails" folder and not the Inbox, so filtering the messages does not remove them from the list presented to your client via POP3.
Switching to IMAP should solve this problem, however, since you'd be able to open whatever folder you wanted.
I am using Thunderbird mail client for gmail accounts. Its works fine, enjoying functionality too. I have problem with this mail client. In client inbox it has a list of unread mails and once viewed it becomes read mail. That's not happening on the gmail servers. If I login to gmail I'm still finding unread mails which I read in Thunderbird.
Please help me how to solve this problem. Is there any option or settings or add-ons which change status of mail when I read it?
Sounds like you setup Thunderbird to use POP to get your email instead of using IMAP. If you go into Gmail and go Settings -> Forwarding and POP/IMAP there is instructions on how to setup an external mail client, like Thunderbird, to use IMAP to get your emails. Just enable IMAP access, and click the link for configuration instructions. There is a section explaining how to setup IMAP access in Thunderbird. In using IMAP, as you read email in Thunderbird, it will be marked as read in Gmail.
Most email services these days allow IMAP access through external clients. POP is good for just getting messages quickly, but IMAP allows the client to pass data back, as well (at least in the case of Gmail) as pull over folders, calendars and notes to your client.