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Does your setup today involve IMAP and SSL?
by limmeau 16y ago
Does your setup today involve IMAP and SSL?
- lawnchair_larry 16y agoMine does. Works well! Even with gmail.
- parfe 16y agoWanderlust (wl-beta in debian) is my favorite IMAP reader. I configure it to use openssl (instead of gnu-tls) for ssl. Everything works well and I'm not finding any features lacking.
- hollerith 16y agoI use fetchmail, which is configured to use IMAP and SSL with Gmail's servers. I am not exercising all of IMAP's functionality though IIUC since I rarely need to access my mail from a machine other than my main machine (and then Gmail's web interface suffices). I run fetchmail manually rather than having cron run it automatically. The reason I do it that way is that the minute or so I have to wait for fetchmail to download my mail reduces the temptation to check my mail more often than I really need to. If there were a way for me to start reading my new mail instantly, checking my mail would be more gratifying (since instant gratification is more gratifying than delayed gratification) and consequently I would have to exercise more willpower to resist the temptation to seek the gratification.