On 2019-8-1 21:47, Lu Wei wrote:
I encounter a strange behavior of my Gmail. I use Thunderbird 52.9.1
under WinXP. It used to work fine, apart from connection failure from
time to time due to the great firewall of china. So I sometimes log into
web UI to check, because web tools for wall-breaking is easier to find
and work. Today after I logged into web UI, I found some recent mails
not received, and would like to read them in TB. I managed to run Tor
successfully, and use F5 to refresh mail. The status bar shows the
normal process, and after showing "downloading message 1 of 1", the
process finished. Press F5 again, another message is downloaded, and on
and on.
Has anyone seen this? What might be the cause?
The choose of search word is an art, yet I finally searched to Gmail's support page (I should have thought of it earlier):
https://support.google.com/mail/foru...%2FE8OivuA0AIE
Exactly the same problem. The explanation is also given in quote:
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bkennelly
The problem shows up over time. After you download a message from Gmail's POP service, it is removed from the POP download queue, and replaced by a newer message for the next download. But, that only happens if the session ends successfully. If there is a network problem before disconnecting, the messages are kept in the queue, just in case the client did not get them. Normally, if your client is not set to leave messages on the server, it will attempt to delete the successfully downloaded messages that were left, and Gmail removes them from the queue. If your client is set to leave messages on the server, it will ignore those messages, and they will remain in the queue indefinitely, leaving less room for new messages.
By changing the "leave on server" option, your client can clear the queue and start receiving more new messages.
Note: when the messages are removed from the download queue, they are not deleted from the Gmail server, unless you chose that option in the Gmail POP settings.
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I followed the advice, and after two long connections (clearing the queue maybe), TB began to download all the new messages.
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Regards,
Lu Wei
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