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For Gmail, it is new. Until recently, 'download' was only possible through IMAP and POP3 – and could therefore take days or even weeks due to throttling.
by chmars 13y ago
For Gmail, it is new. Until recently, 'download' was only possible through IMAP and POP3 – and could therefore take days or even weeks due to throttling.
- davidgerard 13y agoAnd Google's shitty, shitty, broken IMAP implementation. Most of the dev work on offlineimap is to cope with GMail's weird ideas on what constitutes functional IMAP. https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap https://github.com/OfflineIMAP/offlineimap
- blueskin_ 13y agoAh, don't remind me. In an old job, they used gmail for email, so most of the company used Thunderbird. This worked fine for most of them, but sysadmins got so much email (mostly alerts) that google's crappy IMAP implementation kept breaking so the clients would be constantly syncing, and folder operations such as moving stuff would often take multiple minutes. My cheap VPS I run my own email on vastly outperforms gmail's IMAP.