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Re: download email from gmail regularly

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Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> writes:

> On 27 Jan 2024 02:23:18 -0400
> Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> wrote:
>> Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> writes:
>
>> > Here's another option I might have.  I could just forward my Gmail
>> > e-mail to another mailbox and then pull my email from this other
>> > mailbox.  But this other mailbox would have to allow me some easy
>> > authentication and also let me SMTP-send mail from it.
>
> Does  gmail  allow forwarding at present ? This is one thing they may turn off
> in the future or force you to jump through awkward hoops to achieve it ,
> in the name of security , you see.

They still do.  Anything could happen.

>> How do you access the net?  Whatever company is providing your IP
>> address or handing you one each time you connect should have an SMTP
>> server on their system.  Such a server shoud recognize your IP address
>> as "one of ours" and allow you to connect and send mail.
>
> Is this a universal thing ? Because I don't remember my current ISP
> advertising this ; but I wasn't really looking. 

It's likely an American thing.

> With such a set up , where would for example notifications for failed
> deliveries be delivered ?

Good question by the way.

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download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 00:51 -0300
  Re: download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 00:55 -0300
    Re: download email from gmail regularly Mike Spencer <mds@bogus.nodomain.nowhere> - 2024-01-27 02:23 -0400
      Re: download email from gmail regularly Computer Nerd Kev <not@telling.you.invalid> - 2024-01-27 17:00 +1000
      Re: download email from gmail regularly Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 14:38 +0000
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Andrzej Adam Filip <anfi@onet.eu> - 2024-01-27 15:43 +0100
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Julieta Shem <jshem@yaxenu.org> - 2024-01-27 11:59 -0300
        Re: download email from gmail regularly Dave Yeo <dave.r.yeo@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 10:36 -0800
        Re: download email from gmail regularly not@telling.you.invalid (Computer Nerd Kev) - 2024-01-28 07:23 +1000
  Re: download email from gmail regularly Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-01-27 14:29 +0000
    Re: download email from gmail regularly Eric Gillespie <epg@pretzelnet.org> - 2024-02-01 19:00 -0600
      Re: download email from gmail regularly Spiros Bousbouras <spibou@gmail.com> - 2024-02-02 13:04 +0000

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