[dba-Tech] Gmail questions

Thanks Bryan!
Arthur

On 11/24/07, Bryan Carbonnell <carbonnb at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Nov 24, 2007 2:20 PM, Arthur Fuller <fuller.artful at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 1. Is there any way to sort my gmail inbox by Attachments? I.e. get the
> list
> > sorted by Attachments/No Attachments, so I can delete a bunch of old
> emails
> > that consume space with the attachments?
> > 2. Is there a way to set up Outlook so that it can grab all the existing
> > gmail stuff so I have a local copy? (I love having all this off-site but
> > occasionally I would prefer to have a local copy.)
>
> I can't offer an answer to number one directly. But I'll take a stab
> after answering number 2 :)
>
> 2) You can use POP (or IMAP if you want to control what you copy
> locally and do it manually) to download your GMAIL to Outlook. Just
> make sure that when you are setting up your settings, tell it to leave
> a copy on the server. That will give you both a local copy in Lookout
> and leave them on GMail's server.
>
> Now onto number 1 :)
>
> The only thing that I can suggest, is to use IMAP in Lookout to log
> into Gmail, and then use Lookout to sort by attachment (assuming that
> it can do that) and delete them that way.
>
> The nice thing about IMAP is that it doesn't download the email until
> you open it, it will only download the headers so you can see what's
> there.
>
> If you want to do #1 online, do a search for ' has:attachment' minus
> the quotes. That will give you all the e-mails that have an
> attachment.
>
> http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=7190&topic=1579
> lists all the advanced search functionallity.
>
> HTH,
>