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From: marc.hartstein@alum.vassar.edu (Marc Hartstein)
Subject: [sup-talk] Gmail IMAP with sup
Date: Wed, 16 Apr 2008 13:15:09 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1208366079-sup-486@cabinet> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1208358880-sup-751@south>

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Apr 16 11:16:57 -0400 2008:
> 
> There's no tutorial, at least not yet. What Jeff said is best practice
> at this point---most everyone has switched to offlineimap as an
> intermediate layer because Gmail (and possibly the Ruby IMAP libraries)
> isn't fast enough for loading large threads.

Just curious, why do people prefer offlineimap to fetchmail (using
either IMAP or POP protocols)?  Given that sup doesn't write back to the
store, so you're not getting the IMAP advantage of sending read status
back to the server...
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-04-16 17:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-04-15 22:30 Miles Pomeroy
2008-04-16  1:46 ` Jeff Balogh
2008-04-28 16:25   ` Miles Pomeroy
2008-04-29 17:45     ` William Morgan
2008-04-16 15:16 ` William Morgan
2008-04-16 15:30   ` Kendall Grant Clark
2008-04-16 17:15   ` Marc Hartstein [this message]
2008-04-16 19:02     ` Chris Warrington

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