[lbo-talk] technical question

// ravi ravi at platosbeard.org
Thu Nov 3 14:43:06 PDT 2011


On Nov 3, 2011, at 4:40 PM, Nathan S <n.crazeddoberman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I'm still struggling to get the IMAP settings for folders and sent mail to
> work in Thunderbird (I gave up on Gmail in Alpine), if my silence is any
> indication.

It may not be worth it. Gmail's IMAP/SMTP is fundamentally broken (such as the labels to folders mapping, and the practice of saving to Sent using SMTP rather than IMAP). If you plan to persist ping me for a link to a blog post of my travails and partial workarounds. Or you can consider alternatives like Zoho (disclaimer: I have not used their service).

-- Ravi



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