Gmail and Claws

[Steve Litt]

On Sat, 25 Apr 2020 23:37:11 +0300
shlomo solomon <shlomo.solomon at gmail.com> wrote:


> >>It's easy to access email by IMAP instead of POP. That may or may
> >>not fix it, but either way, it gives you some info.  

> I don't use imap because I don't want to sync my Claws mail to Gmail -
> just to download new mail.

Euuuu, I can think of nothing grosser (American meaning, not "bigger")
than syncing an email client to that rotten garbage bin called "gmail".
But nowadays you can use IMAP just like POP: Download and expunge. The
following is the part of my .fetchmailrc that retrieves then deletes my
gmail litttest mail. I'm sure you can do the exact same thing direct
from Claws.

poll imap.gmail.com protocol IMAP 
        user 'litttest aatt gmail.com' there is 'slitt' here
        pass 'my-ultra-secret-password'
        #portnumber 993
        limit 50000000
        warnings 3200
        expunge 60
        mda "/usr/bin/procmail -d %T"
        fetchlimit 50
        ssl;


SteveT

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