Comments on: Tweaking Mail.app and Thunderbird to Play Nice with GMail’s IMAP http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/ Open Source, The Web, And German-American Oddities Wed, 17 Mar 2010 19:15:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Improving your GMail IMAP experience | $ cat /dev/brain > /dev/blog http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-197095 Improving your GMail IMAP experience | $ cat /dev/brain > /dev/blog Wed, 29 Oct 2008 17:41:21 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-197095 [...] introduced IMAP access to their users’ mailboxes quite a while ago. Fred has written about using your GMail IMAP account with popular mail clients such as Apple’s Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird, I was giving my two cents on the GMail Trash [...] […] introduced IMAP access to their users’ mailboxes quite a while ago. Fred has written about using your GMail IMAP account with popular mail clients such as Apple’s Mail.app or Mozilla Thunderbird, I was giving my two cents on the GMail Trash […]

]]> By: Jonathan R. Pritchard’s Homepage » Blog Archive » “Tweaking Mail.app and Thunderbird to Play Nice with GMail’s IMAP” http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-92225 Jonathan R. Pritchard’s Homepage » Blog Archive » “Tweaking Mail.app and Thunderbird to Play Nice with GMail’s IMAP” Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:34:56 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-92225 [...] There’s no point reproducing this information, I might as well link to the guy I found it off myself - here. [...] […] There’s no point reproducing this information, I might as well link to the guy I found it off myself – here. […]

]]> By: Dao http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-92211 Dao Tue, 06 Nov 2007 00:17:09 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-92211 right ;) right ;)

]]> By: Fred http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-92157 Fred Mon, 05 Nov 2007 21:58:42 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-92157 Dao: Thanks -- I made the text a little darker and the links a little brighter. Guess I can't expect people to have well-adjusted screens, can I ;) Dao: Thanks — I made the text a little darker and the links a little brighter. Guess I can’t expect people to have well-adjusted screens, can I ;)

]]> By: Chris Cunningham http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-92097 Chris Cunningham Mon, 05 Nov 2007 16:21:01 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-92097 Thunderbird needs to switch to IMAP by default for its gmail auto-setup, too. It'd be _really_ nice if GMail didn't feel like acting like a normal IMAP server was a big hack. The "Deleted Items" folder isn't actually the same thing as Trash, for instance; "Trash", to GMail, is just this special-cased tag which hides mail from the All Mail view. Not to mention the disconnect between folders and tags. I suppose that's due to Google having not planned to make GMail a real IMAP service in the first place. Proprietary formats, pah. - Chris Thunderbird needs to switch to IMAP by default for its gmail auto-setup, too.

It’d be _really_ nice if GMail didn’t feel like acting like a normal IMAP server was a big hack. The “Deleted Items” folder isn’t actually the same thing as Trash, for instance; “Trash”, to GMail, is just this special-cased tag which hides mail from the All Mail view. Not to mention the disconnect between folders and tags. I suppose that’s due to Google having not planned to make GMail a real IMAP service in the first place. Proprietary formats, pah.

– Chris

]]> By: Dao http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/comment-page-1/#comment-92086 Dao Mon, 05 Nov 2007 15:37:32 +0000 http://fredericiana.com/2007/11/05/tweaking-mailapp-and-thunderbird-to-play-nice-with-gmails-imap/#comment-92086 Depending on the reader's eyes and screen, your hyperlinks are barely distinguishable from text. Depending on the reader’s eyes and screen, your hyperlinks are barely distinguishable from text.

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