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  • dear gmail

    posted @ Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:50 PM | 4 Comments | 

    Dear Gmail,

    Hi.  I like mail.  I like you.  Can you please fix your POP interface?  You see, because I'm starting to want to use it and started investigating the process.  I like that Gmail gives me an awesome spam filter that I would trade my vintage 1980 yoda figurine for.  I also like the filter capabilities that I can set up.  It gives me a clean Inbox...you even call it an Inbox.

    But when I use the POP services, my Inbox got bigger.  All my filtered mail is in there.  What gives?  Why don't you honor my Inbox the same way you do through the web.

    Please Gmail, can you fix this problem with you.  I would really appreciate it.

    K, thanks.

    xoxoxoxo

    -th

    tags: gmail, pop3, gmail pop, pop

    Wednesday, August 01, 2007 12:50 PM

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  • MartinHN said:
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    # re: dear gmail


    Maybe because, that when you use POP3 - and avoid using their web interface, they don't get the chance of showing you all their great ads (read revenue). So the POP3 service is far from their main priority...

    8/1/2007 1:12 PM
  • Rob said:
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    # re: dear gmail


    Um, I'd rather not. If I pop it, and they filtered a false positive as spam, I never know it. If they added a cool X-* header I could point a junkmail rule to, I'm fine. But I'd rather a bit of spam than losing that lead I didn't know I didn't get until they gave up.

    8/1/2007 5:11 PM
  • timheuer said:
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    # re: dear gmail


    all i'm asking is they show me what is in the Inbox -- currently the spam filter they use (messages marked as spam) aren't delivered via pop anyway.

    8/1/2007 5:41 PM
  • Jeremy said:
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    # re: dear gmail


    I'm not 100% positive, but I don't think there's actually an inbox folder in gmail; your messages are labeled "inbox". If you search your mail for "label:inbox", it will return the same result set shown when you click the inbox link (which comes in handy when you want to search by a label and include/exclude items in your inbox). Archiving removes the label. I know this doesn't solve the problem, but it might help make sense of it.

    I'm waiting for an POP3 (read: Outlook) plug-in that will do a better job of handling this problem. I'd build one myself, but a) I can't find an API for gmail, and b) I'm lazy.

    8/2/2007 9:50 AM

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