I would prefer to use Outlook as I have Microsoft Office desktop apps. Regards,
Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore 20 Apr 2022 Wednesday On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 22:12, Shawn Heisey <elyog...@elyograg.org> wrote: > > On 4/20/22 07:51, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote: > > I believe Gmail is using IMAP. The instructions for configuring Gmail > > email accounts in Outlook specifically mention IMAP server hostname: > > > > imap.gmail.com > > > > TCP Port 993, SSL > > Indeed you CAN use IMAP with gmail. For work, I mostly use my email > (which is gmail-based) via Thunderbird, with IMAP. I am familiar with it. > > But if I use the Gmail app for Android or the gmail website, I feel > absolutely certain that those applications are NOT using IMAP. Chances > are that they use protocols developed by Google. > > Regarding your next email on this thread, the initial sync of a large > number of messages via IMAP does take a really long time. But once the > initial sync is complete, syncing the differences is very fast. The big > problem with accessing a large folder via a webmail app like Roundcube > is that it never sets up a local copy of the mailbox. I actually don't > know where the copy of all those message headers resides ... whether it > is in the PHP interpreter or in the browser. But it's not persisted to > disk as it would be with a more traditional IMAP client such as Thunderbird. > > Thanks, > Shawn >
