[ale] GMail was locked

Chris Fowler cfowler at outpostsentinel.com
Wed Jan 12 20:49:23 EST 2011


On Wed, 2011-01-12 at 20:28 -0500, Jim Philips wrote:
> For about 30 minutes there, I was getting a message saying that my
> account was locked due to "unusual activity". They didn't explain how
> I could get it back. I did send a message to GMail support. But this
> was a chilling experience. How do you get your e-mail back if your
> account is just locked with no warning? I'm starting to get cloud
> phobia. 
> _

Use Evolution and IMAP to gmail.  Tell Evolution to download the bodies.
You'll still have web access but a full copy will be on the PC.  

Do not use the Evolution gmail setup feature.  Just treat gmail like any
IMAP account.

Chris




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