> 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. > > 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 it for its proper > place. > > On Wednesday 02 September 2020 13:35:32 Janek Stolarek wrote: > > Three things: > > > > 1. Like others have already said, you need to enable access by unsafe apps > > in Gmail account settings. See [1]. > > > > 2. In KMail POP3 settings you might need to prefix you POP3 username with > > "recent:" (without quotes but with colon), so for example in KMail settings > > my username is entered as "recent:jwstolarek@..." (again, without > > 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, but it's > news to me, and I never found anything like that among suggestions in 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. > > > 3. Contrary to what other said, I rarely have problems caused by logining > > in from different locations. I regularly use VPN so 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. > > > 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 home to > the library, 15 minutes' walk from here. > > > Janek > > > > [1] https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/6010255?hl=en > > [2] https://support.google.com/a/answer/6089246?hl=en > > 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 > this morning, trying in vain to get it back. Then it seemed that my eth0, as > well, wasn't recognized! How can that be? > > I even started the process of reinstalling my Devuan Beowulf (a pain, but 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 discs > and other such tools; again, nothing happening. > > The only thing I had done was to change that line in Gmail, then to check > 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, which is odd, because > I actually have it clamped in place, to make sure that cannot happen. I can > only imagine that I must have stepped on a wire when moving round the stand > that holds my printer; maybe just enough pressure to pull it loose. > > 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 it. > > P.P.S. *It occurs to me that whether one is "shiftless" [unmotivated, lazy] > or "shifty" [nervous, acting guilty, moving round too much, no fixed abode, > etc.], both are bad. So is it better to be shifty or shiftless, or should one > avoid this word altogether? > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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