Gmail and Claws

[Moish]

same here.
using dovcot to handle my local folders.
works like a charm for several years.
I use IMAP wqo expunge to keep a backup on gmail.

Oh, one more thing. Try to change the frequency of pop check.

BWT I use gmvault to download all mail from gmail to my pc.

On 26/04/2020 10:35, Steve Litt wrote:
> 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
> 
> Steve Litt
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