I can send e-mail through outlook, but no e-mails are being copied
to it's
inbox when I recieve them.
Then unlike what you state, you are NOT receiving them and why they
don't show up in Outlook's Inbox folder.
I'm using outlook off of a GMail account,
There is your problem. Gmail is unreliable. Outlook is connecting to
Gmail using POP3 (which you need to enable in Gmail's options).
Outlook sends the LIST command to the POP server asking for a list of
messages (there is no such thing as new or old for the POP mail host,
only the messages currently in the mailbox; the e-mail client keeps
tracks of what is new or old to that instance of the e-mail client).
Problem is that Gmail will occasionally go insane and return no data
for the LIST command. To the e-mail client, that means there are no
messages sitting in Gmail's mailbox so there are none that the e-mail
client can retrieve. Enable the troubleshooting log in Outlook to see
what Gmail returns for the LIST command.
It will copy them if I go into G-Mail and transfer the entire inbox,
So you are using Gmail's web interface and transferring them WHERE?
They are already in the Inbox folder there.
but won't copy them as they come in. I checked out the outlook
settings, and
nothing appears off to the best of my knowledge.
If Gmail reports nothing to the POP3 client's LIST command, the client
sees Gmail saying there is nothing there to yank. Last I read,
emptying out the Gmail Inbox folder using their webmail interface
might get the new mails to trigger Gmail to send them in the LIST
command so your e-mail client knows they exist and will yank them -
but I gave up on Gmail because it has always been a flaky service.
From other posts, it looks like users have had large numbers of
e-mails wiped from their Gmail account (wiped by Google, not because
the user yanked them using an e-mail client).
Gmail is a crappy e-mail provider. Gmail is only for a *personal*
e-mail service. 500 recipients max per day (not emails, but
*recipients*) when using their webmail service, or 100 recipients max
per day when using their poorly emulated POP3 interface (e.g., Gmail
handles a TOP command to see the headers and first N lines of a
message the same as if it got a RETR command to retrieve the entire
message). Google hasn't fixed problems with their POP3 emulation that
reported over 1-1/2 years ago. They are playing around with other
anti-spam quotas which has resulted in many users getting the dreaded
"Sector 5" non-delivery message (which, to Gmail, means you violated
their TOS regarding spam but they won't tell you how you did that).
Getting too many NDRs (non-delivery reports) for sending e-mails to
invalid e-mail addresses also generates the "Sector 5" error which can
lock out your Gmail account for hours or for a day, but Google won't
reveal how many NDRs is too many. Gmail is still a BETA service and
has been for over 2 years which illustrates the lack of resources that
Google has expended to fix this flaky service. E-mails sent to your
Gmail account and which show in the logs for the sending mail server
that it successfully transfered its e-mail to Gmail will sometimes
disappear. That is, they got it to Gmail but then it vaporized within
Gmail so it won't show up in your Inbox (and not because of their spam
filter which they are very rude in not allowing the user to
enable/disable as they wish).
Gmail is a spammer haven. Yes, Gmail has a good *inbound* spam filter
(which you cannot disable in case you like your own solution better,
especially regarding false positives). However, Google will never
take any action on spam abuse reports sent to them and merely spew
back a canned reply. That means Gmail and blogspot spammers are free
to spam because Google won't do anything about them.
