OT: Kmail, POP3, list, thread and Gmail

[Michael Leone]

On Mon, May 19, 2008 at 8:03 PM, Derek Broughton <news at pointerstop.ca> wrote:
> Sylviane et Perry White wrote:
>
>> The problem with this is that the mails I send to the kubuntu list (and
>> others) are not retrived by Kmail (or any other mail agent) using pop3,
>> although they appear in my inbox on the site for Sunrise mail.
>>
>> I am trying to find a workaround, namely to set up a filter on the server
>> side that would forward those mails to another mailbox, from which I could
>> then retrieve them in Kmail.
>
> The problem with this concept is that Gmail doesn't actually use Mailboxes.
> Remember their slogan is something like "sort not filter".  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.

I use IMAP with my Google hosted domain. Each "label" shows up as a
separate mail folder (at least with Thunderbird). Works well.

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