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Set up 2FA and then have the second user use IMAP
I have a question about POP3 & the emails left on the server. Does what you say here pertain only to Google email? I have email through Yahoo. (Originally through the Verizon hard line telephone service, then Frontier took over, and passed the email service on to Yahoo, and now we no longer have a hard line, because we had a big straight-line wind storm here in Holmes Co back in June, and Frontier never repaired the telephone line in our section of Berlin.)Robert wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 8:50 am Both IMAP. There is another way to do it with POP. You can set your email client to download, but not delete until you delete the email in the client. I do this when I travel with my laptop so I can download all the mail onto my home computer when I get back home.
I assume you are using POP right now. POP downloads the email from the gmail box and then deletes the copy in the gmail box.
IMAP leaves it on the server until you delete the email, then it deletes it on the server. This works if you have a pretty constant internet connection. POP is from the old days when you logged in, got your mail, then shut down your connection.
If you have a constant connection, you could just use the gmail web interface.
Go to Settings>All Settings>Accounts and Import. About half-way down the page should be "Grant access to your account:" where you can set another Gmail account to be able to read and send email on your behalf.
There is a workaround to effectively turn off the spam folder for Gmail and something similar would likely work for Yahoo as well. Go into your account to "Filters" and create a new filter for incoming mail. Gmail has the option to create a filter for emails that do not contain a specific text string. Set your new filter to apply to all emails that do not contain a gibberish text string, ie. "lsdaf;sdfj;otrfq", and under actions choose "Never send it to spam."Neto wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 11:04 amI have a question about POP3 & the emails left on the server. Does what you say here pertain only to Google email? I have email through Yahoo. (Originally through the Verizon hard line telephone service, then Frontier took over, and passed the email service on to Yahoo, and now we no longer have a hard line, because we had a big straight-line wind storm here in Holmes Co back in June, and Frontier never repaired the telephone line in our section of Berlin.)Robert wrote: ↑Sat Nov 12, 2022 8:50 am Both IMAP. There is another way to do it with POP. You can set your email client to download, but not delete until you delete the email in the client. I do this when I travel with my laptop so I can download all the mail onto my home computer when I get back home.
I assume you are using POP right now. POP downloads the email from the gmail box and then deletes the copy in the gmail box.
IMAP leaves it on the server until you delete the email, then it deletes it on the server. This works if you have a pretty constant internet connection. POP is from the old days when you logged in, got your mail, then shut down your connection.
If you have a constant connection, you could just use the gmail web interface.
Anyway, the emails stay on their server for at least around 2 weeks.
Another question: Is there a way to shut down their spam filter completely? They miss the real spam, and hold back some that are not spam - important messages. (I recently bought hundreds of dollars of computer components for a project that the customer had, unbekownst to me, cancelled a couple of days before I made the purchases. All because of their stupid spam filter. Yes, I could have returned the parts, but shipping and restocking fees would have made it a permanent loss. Hopefully I will still be able to eventually use these parts on another project. It's a gamble.)
(You can respond via PM if you prefer, to avoid further side-tracking of this topic.)
It would pertain to any email account because these settings are in the client not the server.
Above is a good option but there should be some way to shut off the spam filter in the client. I would do a web search for that and see if you get info.
I'm pretty sure that is shut off completely at my end (using Thunderbird), because of the spam that gets through the Yahoo filter. But they snag messages that I need to see on their end. I have to go on-line from time to time (into the on-line Spam folder) and tag each such message as "Not Spam'. Then it goes to the on-line In Box, and the next time I call in email, it comes into T-bird.