Apple Mail and Gmail

Hi,

First, sorry if this is not the right forum for this message..if it isn't, please direct me to another.

Anyway, I want to use Apple Mail to access my Gmail account. I got it set up correctly, and I have Gmail set to enable all old and new email to be POP enabled. I have about 3000 Gmail messages, but Apple Mail has only downloaded about 275 of them in the last hour or so.

Why is it taking so long for Apple Mail and Gmail to sync up -- and how can I speed up the process?

Thanks.

 

Do those 3000 messages include spam?

 

No. They are all legitimate messages. Back from 2005, so I have a lot of them

 

How much space from Gmail are you using? And how fast is you conn? Perhaps the connection has timed out. You could try restarting it, supposing you didn't delete them from Gmail.

 

I thought Apple Mail couldn't handle web-based mail programs? I have Hotmail and was informed I couldn't use AM to read it. I've been having to read it via FireFox...

 

Mail can work with Gmail as it uses POP-3.

 

Just hit the get mail button each time it stops getting mail. That's what I did to get all my mail (I have about the same as you)

 

When I imported my gmail to Mail, the process seemed to start and stop. May have been my imagination. But AFAIK everything eventually came over.

 

Thanks for the responses everybody. I ended up getting my email.

One followup: When I open Apple Mail, I see two folders. Inbox and Sent. All of my Gmail was put in the Inbox....but a weird thing is that my Gmail sent items were put in my Inbox as well. So what I thought was to be 3000 messages ended up being about 4500 messages because it included the sent items.

Did anyone else get their sent items put in the Inbox during sync?

Thanks.

 

Yep, that's what happened to me. I think that's normal; it happened before on my old PC with Yahoo mail and Thunderbird.

 

I believe thats because the "All Mail" folder (archived mail) confuses things.