Comments on: Gmail Tip: Trick Gmail Into Checking Your POP3 Accounts Often

By: Steve

Steve — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 14:08:04 +0000

I’ve been unable to get this working and I can’t figure out why. Is there something I need to change for my pop3 host that could be preventing gmail from checking?

I have an email account setup through a domain I have hosted with HostGator. Maybe a setting I’m missing somewhere.
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By: Jay Vasse

Jay Vasse — Tue, 29 Nov 2011 16:23:05 +0000

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By: Klaus

Klaus — Thu, 28 Jul 2011 16:59:26 +0000

Hi Roger,

Personally, I simply put up a PHP script (to send the actual e-mail) on one of my domains, in a bunch of weird-named subfolders (so it can’t be guessed easily), and then in the “command” for the scheduled task, I just put:

curl –silent http:…

And then the scheduled task is set to run every 10 minutes (*/10) between a specified timeframe (I don’t need it to run in the evenings, then I don’t mind my email arriving delayed).
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By: Roger Huston

Roger Huston — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:36:35 +0000

I want to setup a customer service email so whomever is watching the store, they can log on to Gmail and get the emails. However, we don’t get a lot, but when we do, it is important we react right away.

This just shows you how the “Geniuses” over that at Google think and why they just don’t get business. Timing matters to business.

I like this idea and want to use it. I know how to setup a CRON job on CPANEL, however, I need to find out how to write a script to send an email. Any ideas?

- Roger

By: Pok

Pok — Fri, 24 Jun 2011 06:07:55 +0000

For those of us who wouldn’t know a chron if it leap up and bit us, an alternative is to set up forwarding to another email address that just bounces it back (eg another email with forwarding on it). Then the more often Gmail checks, the more emails get bounced back and so on… I’m trying this at the moment and will let you know what check rate it gets up to!

By: The Christmas Tree Store

The Christmas Tree Store — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 20:03:56 +0000

Excellent idea, I just switched to gmail yesterday and was noticing the same problem. Thanks for the tip

By: Damon Day

Damon Day — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 16:08:52 +0000

C. Boyd and Klaus,

Thanks for the response. The Lab sounds like the way for me to go. Getting hosting companies involved sounds like it would have to go to a level that I am not prepared to take it

I don’t mind hitting the refresh when I am ready. Thanks to both of you for the tip, the lab will save me some extra clicks every time I want my mail.
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By: Klaus

Klaus — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 15:01:20 +0000

As C. Boyd explains in the comment below, there’s a “Lab”-plugin that allows you to refresh POP accounts also, by the click of the “Refresh”-button in your Gmail Inbox, so if you use the Gmail interface, then that’s probably all you really need.

If, like me, you don’t use the Gmail interface much or at all, then setting up a cronjob on server somewhere, will trick Gmail into thinking you receive mail more often than you might do, so it’ll probably end up polling your POP accounts every 10 minutes or so, rather than once an hour or whatever it used to do.

Ask your webhost if they support cronjob on the server, my guess is that they do – and it’s done via the control panel.
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By: C. Boyd

C. Boyd — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:55:48 +0000

@ Damon Day – FYI, there’s a new “Lab” that does exactly what you suggested… when you hit the “refresh” button, it retrieves POP mail. In case you don’t want to go through the hassle of the cron job thing (although it’s super useful if you don’t want to constantly be hitting “refresh”!).