Re: [users] gmail and pop - with P.S. - WAY off topic - tde-users

4 Sep 2020

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On 2020-09-03 09:39:01 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
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On Thursday 03 September 2020 07:26:29 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
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On Thursday 03 September 2020 07:14:17 BorgLabs - Kate Draven wrote:
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> I sent this email earlier, but since I didn't receive my usual
> copy sent to myself, it seemed that it never made it to the
> outside
world.
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> And then there was a mildy amusing incident, and a few hours of
> creeping panic, but I don't want to spoil the story, so I save
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> its proper place.
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> On Wednesday 02 September 2020 13:35:32 Janek Stolarek wrote:
> > Three things:
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> > 1. Like others have already said, you need to enable access by
> > unsafe apps in Gmail account settings. See [1].
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> > 2. In KMail POP3 settings you might need to prefix you POP3
> > username with "recent:" (without quotes but with colon), so
for
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> > example in
KMail
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settings
> > my username is entered as "recent:jwstolarek@gmail.com"
(again,
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without
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> > quotes). This enables checking email by multiple mail clients
> > (in case you have several machines). See [2]. Moreover, for me
> > without the "recent:" prefix, instead of having access to
> > newest emails as they come in, I would only see email in a
> > batch every few hours.
>
> Here is what I originally wrote:
>
> Whoa! That is one cool trick! It might be general knowledge for
some,
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but
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it's
> news to me, and I never found anything like that among
> suggestions
in
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Gmail's
> pages, nor on other sites who offer advice on how to for Gmail.
> (Doesn't
work
> on Zoho mail, however; just thought I'd give it a try.) At least
> I managed
to
> clear all the old emails off the server.
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> > 3. Contrary to what other said, I rarely have problems caused
> > by logining in from different locations. I regularly use VPN
so
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> > sometimes I'll be checking my email from Switzerland and 5
> > minutes later I'm checking it
from
> > Canada. I have no problems in overwhelming majority of cases.
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> Yeah, I was beginning to feel like some kind of shiftless [or
> maybe
shifty?]*
> pariah, banned from Google periodically, because I have moved
> from
my
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> home
to
> the library, 15 minutes' walk from here.
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> > Janek
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> > [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en
> > [2] https://support.google.com/a/answer/6089246?hl=en
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> Thanks for the tip!
>
> Bill
>
> P.S. After I implemented this change in my Gmail accounts [see
> above], suddenly my wifi was disabled. I spent a few hours last
> night, then
again
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> this morning, trying in vain to get it back. Then it seemed that
> my
eth0,
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> as well, wasn't recognized! How can that be?
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> I even started the process of reinstalling my Devuan Beowulf (a
pain,
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but
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it's
> much quicker now than it was when running Jessie); during setup
> nothing in
my
> network was recognized! Hardware failure?!?! Then I tried some
rescue
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> discs and other such tools; again, nothing happening.
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> The only thing I had done was to change that line in Gmail, then
> to
check
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> email. Could Google really be such a Big Brother gangsta that
> they would deliberately destroy my wireless and ethernet
> connections?
>
> Those jive %@! >?$#~!!!!
>
> At last I check my wifi antenna. (I know, it's weird to use a
> wifi antenna
for
> a desktop computer, but I built this system out of parts.) As it
> turns out, somehow the USB got unplugged from the antenna
itself,
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> which is
odd,
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> because I actually have it clamped in place, to make sure that
cannot
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> happen. I can only imagine that I must have stepped on a wire
> when
moving
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> round the stand that holds my printer; maybe just enough
pressure
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> to
pull
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> it loose.
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> Well, so the moral of this story is, never let your paranoia
> decide the
cause
> of bad experiences, when your own clumsiness or stupidity can
explain
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it.
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> P.P.S. *It occurs to me that whether one is "shiftless"
[unmotivated,
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> lazy] or "shifty" [nervous, acting guilty, moving round too
much,
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> no fixed abode, etc.], both are bad. So is it better to be
shifty
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> or shiftless, or should
one
> avoid this word altogether?

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Bill
You clearly missed the obvious conclusion and, likely, the correct
answer. Science, dear boy, science.
Gnomes, trolls and germlins. Clearly you have an infestation.
Kate
No, that seems unlikely, as I always leave out food and drink for
the
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blessed
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folk, and we have always had a very reciprocal relationship.
I prefer to believe that the Men in Black are after me. That seems a
more
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plausible explanation.
Bill

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True. Sound and sane reasoning.
Kate
It could be, however, that I have somehow offended themselves through my
own ignorance, or because they are known to be whimsical, and even
playfully cruel. Or perhaps I did not notice the beckoning glance of
some
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princess of the Sidhe, and the lady (forgetting that I could not
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see her) was offended.
This, too, could explain what happened.
Bill

True. Far more likely than you pulled the wire off unaware.
One must adhere to reality.
0_o
:)
Kate
These days, one person's reality is another's fantasy, and vice versa. :-)
Leslie

:)
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