Gmail POP from Multiple Clients
17 Feb
Here’s a quick tip I learned this week when accessing Gmail or Google Apps email accounts from multiple email clients using POP3. Say you have Outlook at home and the office and you want your email to be duplicated on both machines. If you set it up with the default configuration, one Outlook will pull all the recent emails from the server and mark them as downloaded. When you get to your other Outlook install, it will not download any mail that’s already marked as downloaded. This can create quite a headache if you want both home and work to be synced.
The solution is pretty simple. Instead of typing your username/email into the login information, prefix it with the the handy little “recent:” filter. The proper syntax would be: recent:yourname@gmail.com This also works with Google Apps. Your emails will start flowing like a river again in all of your clients. Be sure to check “Leave messages on server” on every account setup, otherwise the first client to download will also delete the emails on the server, and your other email clients won’t be able to download those messages at all.
