Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-30 Thread John R Levine via mailop
That’s not the only option they offer. While they might use POP3 for most accounts in the ancient “import” flow, they do support adding 3rd party accounts properly via IMAP via their Gmailify feature. Oh, OK. That only works for a handful of large providers. For my users it says too bad, POP

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-30 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Tue, Jan 30, 2024 at 07:40 John Levine wrote: > > >They support IMAP as well. > > That's the other direction. You can tell them to collect mail from > external > accounts, which they only do by POP. That’s not the only option they offer. While they might use POP3 for most accounts in the a

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-30 Thread John Levine via mailop
It appears that Marcel Becker via mailop said: >-=-=-=-=-=- >-=-=-=-=-=- > >On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop < >mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > >> Interestingly, Google's GMail allows access to external eMail >> accounts via POP3. There's no IMAP4 supp

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-29 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Mon, Jan 29, 2024 at 5:25 PM Randolf Richardson, Postmaster via mailop < mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > Interestingly, Google's GMail allows access to external eMail > accounts via POP3. There's no IMAP4 support there. > They support IMAP as well. -- Marcel _

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-28 Thread Louis Laureys via mailop
> > To me it just doesn't make a lot of sense to basically have two inboxes > > to check - the regular one and the spamfolder. > > I think we all agree.  I either get notifications for emails in the inbox, or I check it often to make sure I'm up to date. Spam is checked manually less often, or if

Re: [mailop] [E] Re: Spamfolder mini rant (Was: Contact Google Postmaster)

2024-01-27 Thread Marcel Becker via mailop
On Sat, Jan 27, 2024 at 13:33 Thomas Walter via mailop wrote: > > Well, there could be if providers would stop delivering what they think > is spam into spamfolders and reject it instead. That’s actually what they already do in 99% of all spam cases. Rejecting known bad email at the gate is the