Re: [sup-talk] Trying sup with gmail

[Mark Alexander <marka@pobox.com>]

Excerpts from David J. Hamilton's message of Wed Sep 01 14:55:26 -0400 2010:
> Is it possible to add gmail as a source in the current version of sup,
> and if so what is the recommended way of doing this?  I am quite happy
> to RTFM if somebody could kindly point me towards the FM I must R.  It
> is fine if the answer is IMAP is basically not supported, but if I
> read up on offlineimap I can find a way to get a non-imap (mbox,
> maildir?) interface, but at the moment it feels as if I am just going
> in the wrong direction.

My understanding is that IMAP is not supported any more by sup (I've
never used IMAP sources, so I could be wrong about this).

I use both Gmail and MS Exchange with sup, using fetchmail and
maildrop to fetch the mail and store it locally.  (I use msmtp to
send mail.)

I tried offlineimap for a while.  I know it's popular, but I abandoned
it because I was having problems with messages being moved from one
maildir to another.  I was definitely having this problem with
Exchange, and it seemed to be related to deleted messages.  I can't
remember if I was having this problem with Gmail; probably not.

In any case, fetchmail and maildrop seem very solid.  They don't give
you the ability to sync changes back to the IMAP server, but I never
needed that feature, and my understanding is that sup doesn't quite
support that yet anyway (or maybe it's experimental?).
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