Fetching from gmail

[Steve Holmes]

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Actually, once I got used to how gmail does IMAP and all, I'm pretty
used to it.  I believe there is something through Google Labs tht
enables traditional IMAP support instead.  But the concept of labels
for assigining folders still holds, I believe.  I like Gmail's spam
filtering; can't think of anything better without having to load up
spam assassin on my box and tie up so many resources.

I really don't like POP because I want to be able to read my mail from
different locations and use mailers from different platforms.  That is
totally possible with IMAP and not with POP.  Yes, some people can use
POP to read from multiple locations but it is still hoke, just the
same and you can't filter into separate folders and access them from
multiple mailers either.

On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 11:57:11AM -0800, Gaijin wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 10:51:17PM -0700, Steve Holmes wrote:
> > The important thing to realize with gmail and IMAP is when deleting
> > unwanted messages, you need to copy them to '=Trash' (exclude the
> > quotes and realize that is capital T on Trash).
> 
> 	I prefer POP3 with mutt.  If you take longer than 10 minutes to 
> compose a reply using IMAP, mut crashes when Google drops your 
> connection.  You can set your g-mail settings on the website to drop 
> everything you've downloaded with POP3 to the trash.  I understand 
> Google dumps the trash on a monthly basis, but I never let it stay full 
> for long enough to find out. 
> 
> 	I don't really bother saving mail any more and just jot down the 
> occasional note from something here, like URLs.  I just hate the way 
> Google has IMAP set up, like you said, and dropping everything into 
> All-Mail.  Unfortunately, my cheap ISP elected to switch it's mail 
> service over to G-Mail, and wrecked my ability to run a mail server like 
> sendmail with multiple accounts.  I can receive just fine, but cannot 
> send.  If I ever get out of the sticks and regain access to other ISPs, 
> I will ditch Clearwire like yesterday's garbage.  I miss having Usenet 
> access.
> 
> 				Michael
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