On 2015-07-22, walt <w41...@gmail.com> wrote: > Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered > that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer) > email servers.
Yep. Their IMAP implementation is pretty well done. Definitly better than courier and far better than MS exchange server. > This puzzled me (still does) because it seems to violate google's basic > business model, which is based on advertising revenue. (I never see an > advertisement when sending/reading email via smtp/imap, obviously.) I think the theory is that you'll still use gmail via web some of the time [I do when I want to search] and probably calendar, and contacts, and other stuff [I certainly do]. Plus, they still get to trawl through all your email traffic. > Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to > their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally. I'm not seeing that with either of my gmail accounts. Same login times as always (1-2 seconds) on both IMAP and SMTP servers. -- Grant
