Google and GMail – Help pls

welcome-u are not quite new but u have not posted in 7 months

shalom in Israel- welcome back to life! Please stick around 🙂

You need to wait around for one of the CR techies (aka CR geek squad;))to get back to you on this.

Maybe CrashOveride or squeak… maybe Joseph? Who else round here is a computer wiz?

squeak, Oh, I guess you’re only the CEO or something;P I would’ve thought that you could be more helpful with this kind of question.

~a~

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Areivim

Shalom in Israel – how exactly is your Outlook configuration set up? Is it POP3, or IMAP?

Hmmm. It definately sounds interesting (btw – I’m not in the US). It sounds like the connection is getting overloaded somehow, which might be connected with the recent outages that Gmail has been having.

When you say that it cannot download – does the download window show any errors? If so, what exactly do they say?

I’ve been using Outlook connected to Gmail for years, and I don’t think that I’ve ever come across this happening for me (or for anyone that I know…)

For how long has this probleem been occuring? Has it always been this way, or did it only start recently?

And of course the obligatory question: did you change any settings?

Did you try to delete and reconfigure your Gmail account in Outlook?

Does it happen on days that aren’t business days also (for example Sunday afternoon)?

Hi Jax. I lost my job a few weeks ago, so I have some more time now… Might as well spend some of it here, at least (some of) the discussions here are things one can learn from.

Jax – work has been so crazy lately, and then last week I popped off/into Israel for a chasunah…and today, I’m moving into a new apartment, so various things have conspired to keep me away from ‘social’ online time. Hopefully now things will get a little quieter 🙂

Daniel Breslauer: Oh wow! hatzlacha to you! great to have ya in the cr!

CrashOverride: hatzlacha to you as well! it’s always great seeing old fun sn’s on the boards! enjoy the cr!

where’s areivim?! i need my welcome squad! 😉

GoldieLoxx: try it. Just give it a try.

I was among the first users, back in 2005 or so, and can’t imagine ever using a slow, annoying, spam-filled email service such as Yahoo or Live mail again.

Also, Gmail has the added benefit for frum people, that you won’t see any picture ads, only text ads. So it is the most ‘kosher’ email service. Just that, combined with the other features (speed, efficiency of spam filter, number of options, combined functionality with all other Google services) is absolutely decisive for me.

GoldieLoxx – people change due to the quality of service, and ease of use. Over the years, I think that I have used every major email host/provider at some point, and some small ones as well. In the end, I happen to like Gmail’s service above everyone else’s, especially due to the uncluttered look/feel of the interface (& the fact that everything can be downloaded/synced with ease of use)

Jax – thanks – it’s good to be able to be back in here 🙂

what about the hassle of switching all your info and informing your contacts?

Areivim – Gmail provides a very useful utility (which was actually just updated in the past few weeks) of pulling in all of the email and contacts from your old account.

With regards to letting everyone know the new email address – a simple bulk email, BCC’ing all of the contacts, should suffice.