[mdlug] Gmail and imap support

[Michael Corral]

2007-10-31, Monsieur Michael Corral a ecrit:
> 2007-10-31, Monsieur - a ecrit:
>> Looking at my gmail account and I now have option for imap access - sweet
>
> Some people have been reporting problems with Gmail's IMAP
> implementation, which apparently is not adhering completely to the
> IMAP specifications. This is causing some IMAP features to not work
> properly in some clients. See the mail message below (snipped for
> brevity) for an example.

Here's the mail message (that got cut off in my last messgage):

>From damion at google.com Wed Oct 31 10:10:32 2007
>Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 10:10:32
>From: Damion Yates <damion at google.com>
>To: vs-ml at email.cz
>Cc: alpine-alpha at u.washington.edu
>Subject: Re: [Alpine-alpha] GMail IMAP and (al)pine
>
>On Mon, 29 Oct 2007, vs-ml at email.cz wrote:
>
>> Does anubody on the list have any experience with the new Google Mail
>> (GMail) IMAP service they have just relased?
>
>I've been using it for a while now helping weed out some bugs it had
>with alpine.
>
>> Is it better to use it without or with the /loser flag? I've found a
>> page describing what they heven't implemented (yet?)
>
>There is no THREAD support, with enough requests for it, they might add
>support for this.
>
>It also doesn't permit you to mark an email as deleted separately to
>expunging, this is due to the poor handling of deleted emails in the
>majority of clients used.  They may add UI configuration for this via
>the web so you can switch the operation.  At the moment I think I can
>request that it is manually tweaked back as I perfer the older behaviour
>which permits undeleting too.