I am helping a friend who just got a mac set up their computer. They use gmail and I wanted to set up his macmail to get his emails from his gmail account, but when i had the mail account "auto set-up" it began grabbing ALL his emails from his gmail account, and he has more than 10,000 and a great many with large attachments. [more inside]
posted by bonsai forest on Nov 15, 2009 - 7 answers

After reading this AskMe, I decided to use Mac's Mail program to keep copies of my messages on my gmail account on my computer. However, I wanted to use the "IMAP" option to keep copies of all my mail both on the web, in gmail, and on my computer, in Mac Mail. Instead, something else happened and now I'm in trouble. [more inside]
posted by foxy_hedgehog on May 18, 2009 - 7 answers

My mom's Gmail account keeps throwing up the CAPTCHA at login, blocking her mail clients. Why? [more inside]
posted by woot on Apr 28, 2009 - 9 answers

Apple Mail keeps re-caching my messages... [more inside]
posted by mkultra on Oct 6, 2008 - 6 answers