{"id":16613,"date":"2012-08-11T11:17:35","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:17:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=16613"},"modified":"2012-08-11T11:18:10","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T09:18:10","slug":"gmail-saga-forwarding-filters-and-pop-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2012\/08\/11\/gmail-saga-forwarding-filters-and-pop-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Gmail saga : forwarding, filters, and POP-3"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago I’ve mentioned that I have a problem with some of my email accounts<\/a>. \u00a0The thing was that I have a few mailboxes, and all of them forward all incoming messages to a single account that I use for everything. \u00a0Some of the accounts forward emails using Gmai’s forwarder, some forward emails using a filter, and some mailboxes are checked for email via POP-3. \u00a0That’s not because I like variety, but because all these accounts were created at different times, back when Gmail wasn’t as full featured as it is now.<\/p>\n

Anyways. \u00a0I realized that one of the accounts stopped forwarding the emails. \u00a0I logged into it, and found that there were thousands of messages waiting for reply. \u00a0None of these messages made it through the forwarder. \u00a0The mailbox is also quite old, and has plenty of email history – most of which I already had in my central mailbox.<\/p>\n

I tried to create a new filter so that I could only forward the ones that didn’t make, but that didn’t work. \u00a0I played around with filters, IMAP access, and a few third-party scripts, but nothing was giving the result that I wanted. \u00a0The only option left was POP-3. \u00a0So I went for it.<\/p>\n

The thing with POP-3 access in Gmail is that when you enable it, you have to choose for which messages – either only the new ones from this point, or for all of them. \u00a0I had to go for the “all of them”.<\/p>\n

The mailbox in question contains a history of 50,000 conversations. \u00a0I cleaned up a bit, so just before the POP-3 pull started, I had around 35,000 conversations. \u00a0Gmail’s POP-3 mail check works interestingly. \u00a0It fetches a maximum of 200 messages per session. \u00a0And it takes a few minutes’ break between sessions. \u00a0It took just a bit over 48 hours to import all my messages to another account via POP-3!<\/p>\n

Gladly, most of them were not duplicated. \u00a0Gmail was smart enough to know which messages I already had and which I didn’t. \u00a0And the ones that I didn’t went through the filtering process in the central mailbox, as they should. \u00a0So after about 2 days of waiting, I’ve ended up with a couple of thousands of new messages. \u00a0Sorted through them in a matter of an hour (thank you Gmail team for keyboard shortcuts!), and now I am up to speed again.<\/p>\n

Thinking over this experience, I will probably go through the settings of all my other accounts and make sure that I am using POP-3 rather than filters or forwarders. \u00a0Somehow I think it is a little bit more reliable.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

A few days ago I’ve mentioned that I have a problem with some of my email accounts. \u00a0The thing was that I have a few mailboxes, and all of them forward all incoming messages to a single account that I use for everything. \u00a0Some of the accounts forward emails using Gmai’s forwarder, some forward emails … Continue reading Gmail saga : forwarding, filters, and POP-3<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,2,62,1334],"tags":[72,1985],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-16613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-personal","category-technology","category-web-work","tag-email","tag-google-gmail"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t