OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[lanzen]

On Tuesday 20 May 2008 02:03:46 Derek Broughton wrote:

>  I've seen some
> people talk about using IMAP, and that's intriguing because I can't see how
> that's really compatible with the GMail web interface.  I'm going to have
> to check it out.

http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=75725
has a thorough explanation about it.

It has to be set up on GMail site and all labels induced by filtering will 
produce, on the client side, a folder.

For instance I made a "kubuntu" label and a filter that assigns this label if 
the "To:" field is "kubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com".

I had POP already activated when I checked the radio botton for IMAP and it 
has stayed this way since.

In a IMAP client I see a kubuntu folder and, when connected, I get all the 
headers. They are all there since the very first received mail. Not advisable 
for a slow connection, but then, I suppose, one can simply delete old staff.

All this does not affect KMail where I do POP and get mails "normally". Once 
Kmail downloads them, they will be marked as read next time I'll access 
through the (say Thunderbird, Evolution, you name it) IMAP client.

-- 
lanzen