On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 11:13 AM, Patrick O'Callaghan <pocallag...@gmail.com > wrote:
> On Fri, 2016-09-16 at 08:59 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > > > Google is actively trying to discourage IMAP use. I have heard reports > that > > they deliberately have it fail randomly to aid in this. > > What evidence do you have for this? > I didn't say I had any hard evidence, I said "I have heard reports". I am not accusing Google of any criminal activity here. Google *Is* trying to discourage use of IMAP. They want everyone to use their API's (via the web interface or a Gmail-specific app). Their tech support people have told us this much. Whether they are actually causing failures to discourage IMAP use is, of course, pure speculation. All I can say there is that there are people who believe they are doing this based on their own tests. Anecdotal evidence only. Take it for what it's worth. > > > > The problem being reported (and which I have also seen) is not with > IMAP but with CalDav. Sorry, that's my bad for misreading the original post. So this side thread is largely irrelevant to the OP. > See https > ://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1346228 Thank you for that; I learned something useful by reading through that. I was curious because I have what may be a related issue in that, periodically, Evolution starts putting up popup windows for every *#(@(*! Google calendar in my list, asking for the password. I wish I knew how to turn that off. I don't use Evolution to access my calendars, I only use it for IMAP. Unfortunately the one thing Google still doesn't provide is a decent interface to PGP for reading encrypted e-mail; I still have to use IMAP for that. This is annoying enough to make me consider trying other IMAP clients, but Evolution does have a nice easy to use interface for reading and sending PGP-encrypted mail. --Greg
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