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Google Adds IMAP Support To GMail … the wrong way around!

Kellan — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 15:46:19 +0000

I don’t want to be able to check my GMail account with the current crop of terrible IMAP desktop clients, I want to be able to check my IMAP account with GMail!

http://blog.wired.com/monkeybites/2007/10/google-adds-ima.html

GMail IMAP

Kellan — Thu, 11 Nov 2004 01:56:28 +0000

Talk about getting it wrong. POP access to your GMail account is lame (who uses POP?), what I want is GMail to be an IMAP client to my own IMAP service, now that would be useful.

Mozilla Thunderbird 0.6 is out, and works great.

Kellan — Mon, 03 May 2004 21:27:11 +0000

Though I’d like to see then think more about their threading support, ala Gmail

http://mozilla.org/products/thunderbird/

Index my IMAP?

Kellan — Sat, 27 Mar 2004 02:17:00 +0000

Does anyone know a good tool for indexing and searching IMAP folders? I’ve played with Zoe a bit, and I had trouble getting it (and keeping it) running, and it did more then I wanted, and was comfortable delegating.

Basic feature set would be a server resident process that indexed my IMAP folders and presented a simple search interface. Ideal features would include browsability, vfolders, and sorting by lists, etc. (yeah, yeah, sounds more and more like Zoe, I know)

I found a quick hack that implements the basic features, but I’m really worried about the foot print of Java on my server (though am willing to experiment if it turns out that all these products are built on Lucene), and am also hoping to find something that feels more mature. (and funes is another, which gets bumped up the interestingness scale by being written by Nelson Minar, and quoting Borges)

I suppose a tool for indexing and searching maildirs would also work.

Suggestions?