Evolution vs. Thunderbird

[Andrew Farris]

On Tue, 2009-09-01 at 22:56 -0500, Emil Payne wrote:
> > To set up a gmail account in evolution, make sure that IMAP or POP
> > forwarding is set up on your account. search in the gmail help for how
> > to do this (but I think the setting is under "Settings > forwarding"
> > from the gmail interface) Then, the rest of the info you'll need is this
> > (NOTE: This is for IMAP{which is what I use} but should work for POP
> > also, just change the imap.gmail.com to pop.gmail.com):
> >     Recieving-
> >         Server: imap.gmail.com:993
> >         Username: <your gmail acct. sans the @gmail.com>
> >         Secure Connection: SSL Encryption
> >         Authentication: Password
> >     Sending-
> >         Server: smtp.gmail.com:465
> >         Secure Connection: SSL Encryption
> >         Authentication: Login
> > 
> > Hope that helps :)
> > 
> > 
> In Thunderbird, all the above is known.  Just tell it you have a gmail
> account and give it the name and all the above is done automatically
> 
> Emil

That's good to know... admittedly, it would be nice to have Evolution do
that, but oh well...


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Andrew
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