Excerpts from David J. Hamilton's message of Wed Sep 01 14:55:26 -0400 2010: > Is it possible to add gmail as a source in the current version of sup, > and if so what is the recommended way of doing this? I am quite happy > to RTFM if somebody could kindly point me towards the FM I must R. It > is fine if the answer is IMAP is basically not supported, but if I > read up on offlineimap I can find a way to get a non-imap (mbox, > maildir?) interface, but at the moment it feels as if I am just going > in the wrong direction.
My understanding is that IMAP is not supported any more by sup (I've never used IMAP sources, so I could be wrong about this). I use both Gmail and MS Exchange with sup, using fetchmail and maildrop to fetch the mail and store it locally. (I use msmtp to send mail.) I tried offlineimap for a while. I know it's popular, but I abandoned it because I was having problems with messages being moved from one maildir to another. I was definitely having this problem with Exchange, and it seemed to be related to deleted messages. I can't remember if I was having this problem with Gmail; probably not. In any case, fetchmail and maildrop seem very solid. They don't give you the ability to sync changes back to the IMAP server, but I never needed that feature, and my understanding is that sup doesn't quite support that yet anyway (or maybe it's experimental?). _______________________________________________ sup-talk mailing list sup-talk@rubyforge.org http://rubyforge.org/mailman/listinfo/sup-talk
