Ken Hornstein <[email protected]> writes: >>I now fetch my mail using fetchmail. But I have no particular brief for >>fetchmail. I don't remember why I started using it more than 20 years ago. >>Probably because I didn't know any better. > >Forgive me if my first note was harsh; you're welcome to ask questions >about fetchmail here. It's just that our focus is not really fetchmail. > >And, well, there's an obvious reason why you probably started using >fetchmail; for a very long time we didn't have very good POP support >in inc. But I've spent a lot of effort improving that over the years, >because for some strange reason I think a MUA should actually work with >modern email configurations :-) I think a lot of people are in this >boat; they got something working 20 years ago and didn't see a reason >to change. > >If you want to get things working with GMail and inc directly, I know >several people have it working here (I also did some testing with it). >Really, if you have your username & password for GMail, I hope my >previous note provided you enough information to get it going. If it >isn't working, let us know (note: if it doesn't work, start with -snoop).
I wonder if somebody might be willing to tell me the exact arguments to inc and to send for getting mail from and to Gmail, given that my Gmail username is [email protected] and password is foobar. Also, what, if anything, do I need to do with mhlogin. Norman Shapiro
