[Tfug] Gmail gets IMAP

[Matt Jacob]

Nope, no IMAP options for me yet. My tab still says "Forwarding and
POP" instead of "Forwarding and POP/IMAP". According to Gmail's help,
the rollout is apparently happening incrementally:

https://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=79344

On 10/30/07, Jeremy D Rogers <jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu> wrote:
> Wait, what? I thought everyone got it all at once. You can't see the
> IMAP setting under your gmail settings? For me it is right in there
> with the POP settings. What's weird is that it is enabled for my
> account and I never explicitly turned it on. I signed up around the
> same time.. maybe late 2004ish.
>
> On 10/30/07, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> > I still don't have IMAP enabled in my account yet, but I'm waiting
> > patiently. I got invited to Gmail right around April or May of 2004,
> > so I wonder if they're rolling out IMAP to the newest accounts first.
> > When did you guys sign up?
> >
> > Matt
> >
> > On 10/30/07, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:24:01AM -0700, jrcresawn at gmail.com wrote:
> > > > Thanks for this information.  This is a wonderful solution if you want to
> > > > continue to receive local mail without having to reconfigure your default
> > > > MTA—exim in the case of Debian.
> > >
> > > Yes, and it was much easier to setup than exim.  Here is my config --
> > > hopefully it will save you some time if you decide to use msmtp :-)
> > >
> > > <msmtp-config>
> > > # Set default values for all following accounts.
> > > defaults
> > > tls on
> > > tls_trust_file ~/.ca-certificates.crt
> > > tls_key_file ~/.gnutls.key
> > > tls_cert_file ~/.gnutls.cert
> > > tls_starttls off
> > > logfile ~/msmtp.log
> > >
> > > # gmail
> > > account gmail
> > > host smtp.gmail.com
> > > port 465
> > > from myAccount at gmail.com
> > > auth plain
> > > user myAccount
> > > password myPassword
> > >
> > > # Set a default account
> > > account default : gmail
> > > </msmtp-config>
> > >
> > >
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> Jeremy D. Rogers, Ph.D.
> Postdoctoral Fellow
> Biomedical Engineering
> Northwestern University
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