On 2009-02-13, James Freer <jesseja...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Kyle > > Thanks for your reply - that has helped clarify some things. Ubuntu > 8.04 repos has the mutt 1.5.17 [but as the 8.04 version is the Long > Term Support version it may well automatically replace it with the > updated version on install]. >>> I have three emails addresses with googlemail.com >> >> Ah, fun. > > Does that mean considerable stress and grief??
I think Gmail's IMAP server works great (far better than some traditional IMAP servers). Multiple accounts is multiple accounts regardless of the server. The only thing I remember causing problems was that Gmail's IMAP server has a very short connection timeout. The following setting in my .muttrc file seems to keep it happily connected: set imap_keepalive=30 > I have set up IMAP gmail with Thunderbird and wondered about POP and > SMTP. Gmail has an odd way of handling IMAP which i'm not sure about. > Using as webmail Gmail has an Inbox, Sent and All Mail box - when > using Thunderbird in IMAP all incoming mail remains in the Inbox, then > has to be archived manually [by going back to webmail] to put it in > the All Mail box. Gmail is very clever with its conversations feature > and this is why it has this All Mail box i guess but i didn't find a > away of archiving the Inbox to All Mail I'm a bit confused about what you mean by "archiving the Inbox to All Mail". If you're using IMAP and if you don't want to see an e-mail in the Inbox folder any more, then delete it. It'll still be there in the "All Mail" box. In Gmail's IMAP server, a message can exist simultaneously in mutliple IMAP folders (yet there's only one real copy of the message). Remember: IMAP folders are just the way that Gmail presents "labels" to an IMAP client. Folders do not correspond to anything like separate directories in a filesystem that contain copies of messages. Be default, incoming messages are given the label "Inbox". The "All Mail" "folder" is special in that it provides a view of all messages regardless of what labels they have (if any). Deleting a mail from a "folder" just removes the corresponding label from the message. IIRC, the only way to really "delete" a message is to move it to the Trash or Spam folder, then delete it from there. Hmm... I don't remember what happens when, via IMAP, you delete a message from the "All Mail" folder. Anyway, it's explained pretty well on the google web site: http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=75725 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=77657 http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=78755 -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I just got my PRINCE at bumper sticker ... But now visi.com I can't remember WHO he is ...
