Date: 10/20/05 (Mozilla)    Keywords: html, web, google

I didn't know it could be done - have gmail email downloaded into t-bird. I thought they were web only.

Apparently, I was wrong.

The instructions are available here:

http://itly.blogspot.com/2005/02/thunderbird-gmail-configuration.html

I thought I'd post this, because there are probably others of you who didn't realize this was possible.

(EDIT)
Or, as ernestsewell has helpfully pointed out, there's official instructions here:

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?ctx=%67mail&hl=en&answer=12103

I guess this is just to remind people that it's possible then ;).. I think I'd tried it before, and couldn't get it to work. The part I missed was the requirement for SSL.

Source: http://www.livejournal.com/community/mozilla/331336.html