On Friday 10 March 2006 23:53, A. Pagaltzis wrote:
> * Shlomi Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-03-10 13:30]:
> >On Monday 06 February 2006 00:05, Shlomi Fish wrote:
> >> I'd like to become co-maintainer of the Mail-Webmail-Gmail
> >> module:
> >>
> >> http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Webmail-Gmail/
> >>
> >> Has been unmaintained since April 2005, and is now broken due
> >> to the gmail interface change. I wrote and submitted a patch
> >> to fix it:
>
> Honestly, though, why would anyone care? GMail offers POP3 access
> now, so scraping their web pages to get at the information is a
> pointless excercise.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. POP3 is a limited protocol that doesn't give
everything that Mail-Webmail-Gmail does. Here are a few things that M-W-G can
do that POP3 can't:
1. List all messages in a certain label.
2. Delete all messages in a certain label.
3. Apply a label on a large number of messages.
4. Remove a label from a large number of messages.
Everything that has to do with labels cannot be done with POP3.
I'm using Mail-Webmail-Gmail to purge all the messages from the label of a
certain mailing list. I'm not interested in downloading all of them to my
hard disk, and I'd rather not use the web UI to delete them since it can only
select 100 messages at a time.
Regards,
Shlomi Fish
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