On 2007-11-22, Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@yahoo.com> wrote:
> andrew wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Has anybody been setting there email programs to use Gmail via IMAP?
>> I will have some spare time soon to configure mutt to run with this
>> but I was curious to see how other people have managed.
>>
>> Is it fast, slow, a pain to setup, reliable, available worldwide yet
>> etc?
>
> Using Thunderbird here. As everyone has said, it was a piece of cake to
> setup, didn't matter if it was Linux or Windows or whatever.
>
> However, I can't say that Gmail is all that fast when using IMAP vs.
> POP. POP is still much faster.
This has certainly been my experience. I have now written up mutt /
IMAP / gmail and experimented a little:
http://people.aapt.net.au/~adjlstrong/mutt.html#imap
but for my own personal use I have returned to POP3/SSL
Andrew
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