OK, this IS Linux related, in the way that you can run Thunderbird on Linux. I just thought this was pretty cool and I had a need for it. I recently joined the WFTL-LUG (how many times I type WTFL by the end of this who can even guess), which is a global Linux Users Group. While I have a real, physical LUG in my area, I’ve found the topics to be a little too technical for the beginner (to my dismay). Since I want to hear about the experiences of others and maybe even offer some tidbits of advice myself, I want to be involved in something with a good amount of Linux chatter. If something like this interests you, check out the link above. Not only is the LUG hella useful, but the site itself (http://www.marcelgagne.com) has a lot of great information. Thanks go to Jon Watson for directing me to the LUG.
What I wanted was a second (or third) gmail account that I could use just for the WFTL-LUG, and I wanted to be able to manage it in Thunderbird from two locations; work and home. Since there’s no IMAP for gmail, and I’m personally not ready to run an IMAP server on my own, I decided to enable POP on the account, grab the mail, and store it locally. This was a great idea until I remembered that once the email was downloaded into one mail client, the second client wouldn’t see those messages and they wouldn’t be downloaded. Well, this wasn’t going to work, I would either have to use one client, or worry about having some mail in one location and some in another. I can’t be the only one that has this problem. I googled for a solution and came up with “recent mode”. It works like this; you change the username (I did it on both mail clients, but one should have been enough) to recent:username@gmail.com. This retrieves all messages received in the last thirty days whether it’s been collected by another POP client or not. The exact wording for it is here.
Now I only need to worry about marking messages/threads read when I get home. Just thought I’d share as it saved me a headache 
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