Check your other mail accounts with Gmail - Mail Fetcher - Page 5

war17 · 19 Jan 2007, 11:39 PM

When you get the Mail Fetcher feature, there is no announcement. You need to check Settings > Accounts to see if you got it.

xmailer · 20 Jan 2007, 04:45 AM

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Originally posted by dantheman
Is there a Google Groups on this issue?

It's been about a month now since they've announced this retrieval bit and i'm still not seeing it. Hrumpth!

Perhaps for the reasons suggested above by sinan, you're really not missing much IMO.

kaptitsky · 22 Jan 2007, 03:12 AM

One of two new Gmail accounts I created this morning (for my mother's friends) had Fetch.

Since you get 50 invites with new accounts, using 2prong.com you could easily make a chain until you got it.

Course, the account my ex-brother in law uses, which needs fetch, still doesn't have it. . . .

dantheman · 22 Jan 2007, 03:21 AM

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Originally posted by kaptitsky
One of two new Gmail accounts I created this morning (for my mother's friends) had Fetch.

Since you get 50 invites with new accounts, using 2prong.com you could easily make a chain until you got it.

Course, the account my ex-brother in law uses, which needs fetch, still doesn't have it. . . .

Now try and figure that one out.

BTW, with all the security issues that i keep reading about with regards to GMail and Google, i'm surprised there hasn't much discussed about it here.

rmns2bseen · 22 Jan 2007, 03:44 AM

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Originally posted by dantheman
Now try and figure that one out.

BTW, with all the security issues that i keep reading about with regards to GMail and Google, i'm surprised there hasn't much discussed about it here.

What security issues are those, dantheman? By the way, I have the fetch capability in one (hardly-ever-used) account, but don't have it in my most-heavily-used one. Logical. Looks like another slow rollout, though as I said I probably wouldn't make much use of the feature anyway.

dantheman · 22 Jan 2007, 05:25 AM

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Originally posted by rmns2bseen
What security issues are those, dantheman?

It's not the one i was looking for (access to credit card info online) but loosing ones messages is an unpleasant story to hear.
60 people
Of course, i think stories like these are to taken with a grain of salt as i'm sure there can some errors in reporting the facts in a truthful manner.

Quote:

I have the fetch capability in one (hardly-ever-used) account, but don't have it in my most-heavily-used one. Logical. Looks like another slow rollout, though as I said I probably wouldn't make much use of the feature anyway.

Yeah. I still rely on good ol' Fastmail to pull me through.

rmns2bseen · 3 Feb 2007, 11:26 AM

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Originally posted by rmns2bseen
...By the way, I have the fetch capability in one (hardly-ever-used) account, but don't have it in my most-heavily-used one. Logical. Looks like another slow rollout...

As an update of sorts, I now have the fetch capability in all 3 Gmail accounts, so I guess maybe the rollout is picking up speed. But who knows. I thought the same about webclips.

dantheman · 3 Feb 2007, 08:56 PM

Twoday is the day!!!

Yes baby!

My GMail account is now able to check messages from other POP accounts!!!

Hey, hey, heyyyyy!!!

-have only been waiting since first announced a little over a month and a half ago...

rabarberski · 6 Feb 2007, 10:19 PM

Indeed, my account has it now since a couple of days, too.

FYI: the fetching interval started off at every 2 minutes, changed (after about 15 minutes) to every three minutes, then every 5 minutes, and after two days has stabilized on fetching exactly every hour.

Since the account it fetches mail from barely receives mail, it seems that the fetching interval is thus adjusted to the amount of mail received on the account being fetched (with a minimum frequency of once every hour).

kaptitsky · 7 Feb 2007, 10:19 AM

I don't have one account without Fetcher.

Looks like it's all there, but no note yet.

Rip Slagcheek · 8 Feb 2007, 07:13 PM

mine was checking every hour, then for some reason didn't check for 24 hours. any idea if there have been problems?

xmailer · 8 Feb 2007, 10:38 PM

According to the "View history" link in my account, my "external" POP account was last checked around 30 hours ago. Which wouldn't be very useful to someone awaiting an "important" message. Not that I'd personally trust any email service for any really important messages.

Rip Slagcheek · 9 Feb 2007, 01:14 PM

still down here too

xmailer · 9 Feb 2007, 10:10 PM

In the Gmail account in which I have five external POP accounts set up for checking, all accounts still seem to be being checked regularly. However, in the account in which I have only one external account set up, it's now going on 55 hours since it was last checked. It was being checked exactly hourly until 2:37 AM EST Wednesday morning when it "froze". Gmail is weird.

**ReuvenNY** · 9 Feb 2007, 10:15 PM

Delete that POP account and recreate it. It will restart POPing again.

22 Jan 2007, 03:12 AM	#63
kaptitsky The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,186	Fetch in Newly Created Account. One of two new Gmail accounts I created this morning (for my mother's friends) had Fetch. Since you get 50 invites with new accounts, using 2prong.com you could easily make a chain until you got it. Course, the account my ex-brother in law uses, which needs fetch, still doesn't have it. . . .

3 Feb 2007, 08:56 PM	#68
dantheman Cornerstone of the Community Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Hot Springs, AR Posts: 857	Twoday is the day!!! Yes baby! My GMail account is now able to check messages from other POP accounts!!! Hey, hey, heyyyyy!!! -have only been waiting since first announced a little over a month and a half ago... Last edited by dantheman : 4 Feb 2007 at 03:05 AM.

19 Jan 2007, 11:39 PM	#61
war17 The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: California Posts: 3,452	When you get the Mail Fetcher feature, there is no announcement. You need to check Settings > Accounts to see if you got it.

6 Feb 2007, 10:19 PM	#69
rabarberski Master of the @ Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Ghent, Belgium Posts: 1,027	Indeed, my account has it now since a couple of days, too. FYI: the fetching interval started off at every 2 minutes, changed (after about 15 minutes) to every three minutes, then every 5 minutes, and after two days has stabilized on fetching exactly every hour. Since the account it fetches mail from barely receives mail, it seems that the fetching interval is thus adjusted to the amount of mail received on the account being fetched (with a minimum frequency of once every hour).

7 Feb 2007, 10:19 AM	#70
kaptitsky The "e" in e-mail Join Date: Aug 2002 Posts: 2,186	I don't have one account without Fetcher. Looks like it's all there, but no note yet.

8 Feb 2007, 07:13 PM	#71
Rip Slagcheek Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NYC // Texas Posts: 72	mine was checking every hour, then for some reason didn't check for 24 hours. any idea if there have been problems?

8 Feb 2007, 10:38 PM	#72
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	According to the "View history" link in my account, my "external" POP account was last checked around 30 hours ago. Which wouldn't be very useful to someone awaiting an "important" message. Not that I'd personally trust any email service for any really important messages.

9 Feb 2007, 01:14 PM	#73
Rip Slagcheek Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NYC // Texas Posts: 72	still down here too

9 Feb 2007, 10:10 PM	#74
xmailer Intergalactic Postmaster Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: USA Posts: 5,485	In the Gmail account in which I have five external POP accounts set up for checking, all accounts still seem to be being checked regularly. However, in the account in which I have only one external account set up, it's now going on 55 hours since it was last checked. It was being checked exactly hourly until 2:37 AM EST Wednesday morning when it "froze". Gmail is weird.

9 Feb 2007, 10:15 PM	#75
ReuvenNY Moderator Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: New York Posts: 4,259	Delete that POP account and recreate it. It will restart POPing again.