Comments on: Mail’s Here http://microwavebiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/mails-here/ Not so yummy Sat, 19 Jul 2008 21:40:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=MU By: Colin http://microwavebiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/mails-here/#comment-1137 Colin Thu, 08 Nov 2007 12:43:13 +0000 http://microwavebiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/mails-here/#comment-1137 Hi, The Gmail IMAP problems are due to Google's not following the IMAP standard. See there for example: http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/10/25/dear-gmail/ http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/10/27/claws-and-imap (third comment) The libetpan (our IMAP library) developer has made a workaround to "fix" this shortcoming of GMail, as we don't trust them to do the right thing. Hi,

The Gmail IMAP problems are due to Google’s not following the IMAP standard. See there for example:
http://www.colino.net/wordpress-1.5/archives/2007/10/25/dear-gmail/
http://farragut.flameeyes.is-a-geek.org/articles/2007/10/27/claws-and-imap (third comment)

The libetpan (our IMAP library) developer has made a workaround to “fix” this shortcoming of GMail, as we don’t trust them to do the right thing.

]]> By: Jake http://microwavebiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/mails-here/#comment-1117 Jake Mon, 05 Nov 2007 23:51:41 +0000 http://microwavebiscuit.wordpress.com/2007/11/05/mails-here/#comment-1117 Unfortuantely, from what I've heard, G-Mail's IMAP appears to be slow across many different e-mail clients if you have a large inbox. I gave up with it on KMail. Unfortuantely, from what I’ve heard, G-Mail’s IMAP appears to be slow across many different e-mail clients if you have a large inbox. I gave up with it on KMail.

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