Re: IMAP Service

On 2008-01-26, Countryman <mail@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 00:01:03 +0000, Shawn Hirn wrote
(in article <srhi-698E28.19010325012008@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>):

Gmail is a great option. If you're setting up to use IMAP, then why do
you need to care what gmail's interface looks like?

Because I need to access my mail from different computers/locations where I
do not and cannot have the likes of Thunderbird set-up (hence the need for
imap)

What kind of computer are you working on that has a web browser but
doesn't have an imap-capable mail client?

In any case, the only specific complaint you've made about the gmail
gui is that it doesn't have folders. But it does: the gmail
equivalent is labels. You can also define rules (filters) to label
new mail automatically, which is to say, put it in a given folder.

If you access gmail via imap from another mail client[*] the folder
hierarchy starts at a special one called "[Gmail]". Under this you
get five standard folders, "All Mail", "Sent Mail", "Drafts", "Trash"
and "Starred", each with the obvious contents. You'll also get a
folder for each personal label you create in the gmail gui as long as
that label starts "[Gmail]/". Similarly, if you use your mail client
to create a new folder, say "foo", it will appear in the gmail gui as
"[Gmail]/foo".



[*] I haven't figured out yet how to get mutt to see the" [Gmail]"
hierarchy, but I doubt this is relevant for the OP. I can connect to
gmail server in mutt via imaps://username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx and see
INBOX, and I can use imaps://username@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx/[Gmail]/label to
see a specific folder. But no variant I've tried will show me the
hierarchy.

.

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