Marrying Gmail and Mutt 31
teumima writes "I found this article very nice and simple on how to configure mutt for g-mail." Indeed; nice piece. I've been experimenting with using Gmail as my default mail drop, but don't really want to be dependent on being online or just POP; I just wish they would let me pay for IMAP service. Linux.com is also owned by OSTG.
Braindead article (Score:4, Insightful)
What I got was a tutorial on how to use POP in Mutt.
What does this article even have to do with GMail, other than it happened to be the person's POP server?
GMail's POP access is basically useless IMO. Until they get IMAP I will continue with my current scheme, whereby I send all email to GMail, and forward it to my own IMAP server as well. Then I can read my email with an IMAP client when at home and work, and with GMail when on the road.
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No IMAP == no ads. POP for backups. (Score:1)
Though offering at least POP access is very important. This is the way I may make offline backup of my mail archive. And prefer using web interface :)
Should read: IMAP == no ads (Score:1)
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I don't believe it.
But, just in case
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Many providers offer free web mail (advertising revenue).Some offer free POP3. I've signed up for these twice and been stung. All of a sudden I can receive mail but not send. Turns out, via an obscure note on their website that SMTP is now a premium service! This is a problem because:
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Yeah, especially since the article is over a year old.
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POP. (Score:2)
Married? (Score:2)
Wasn't Stallman married to a DEC PDP System at one point?
Share the software, and you'll be free...
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Yes, but one day he hooked a gas chromatograph up to it, and it could suddenly smell him...
GMail IMAP is needed (Score:1)
Still, I really thing Google should support the protocol. Maybe they could detect the patterns of the inneficient clients and simply disconnect them untill the client's protocol support is cleaned up.
For the most part, I LOVE Mozilla Thunderbird's IMAP support. I have 45 email users using Thunderbird with IMAP.
-Joe Baker
IT Administrator
NEL Frequency Controls, Inc.
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Check out iGmail [butterfat.net].
I tried it out yesterday, in fact. It works as advertised, which means many limitations. But it does translate Gmail to IMAP efficiently and effectively.
The two limitations are based on Gmail. You can't copy from another email address to Gmail, so it isn't an import tool. I don't know there is any way to simply import mail to Gmail (all I've seen is one that forwards all the mail in your mailbox). The other limitation is based in the different paradigms of folders and labels. iGmail handles
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Not a great article (Score:2)
Google, are you listening? (Score:1, Interesting)
I would readily outsource my corporate email to Google under the following conditions:
* Provide IMAP support. Sending labels as X-Label headers would be icing on the cake.
* Give me a privacy policy. Requirements:
- If I delete an email, it is deleted. Period.
- Backup/restore run by my corpora
New name needed (Score:2)
I for one welcome our new Gm'muttail (pronounced Gum-mutt tail) overlords.