Re: [fetchmail-users] Google Mail officially unsupported by fetchmail (was: fetchmail exis status 1 - Only few emails are getting retrieved.)

[Gerard S. <ge...@se...>]

On Tuesday September 18, 2007 at 04:50:36 (AM) Matthias Andree wrote:

> This is all a waste of time and has no relation to fetchmail or is
> something fetchmail could do something about at its end, and I'm not
> willing to add workarounds because someone feels incapable to implement
> the rather simplistic POP3 protocol properly.
> 
> I herewith declare Google Mail related issues unsupported in fetchmail.
> 
> Sorry, but I'm fed up with all this Google settings and nonstandard
> behaviour that doesn't work out right and my extremely limited time
> allows me but two choices: get rid of nonsense that ties up even more of
> the time, or quit development altogether. I definitely prefer the
> former.
> 
> I'll accept further Google Mail related patches to the FAQ, and
> fetchmail will continue to do a best effort to fetch messages, but if it
> doesn't work with Google Mail or if you get different results than you
> expect, bother the Google staff instead, but not the fetchmail list
> regulars or maintainers.
> 
> If this keeps cropping up, we'll have to set up autoresponders and bans
> for the list.


Allow me to add my 2¢ here. I have always found Google's
implementation of POP and SMTP to be extremely poorly thought out.
Quite frankly, the entire concept of Google's email service is subject
to extreme scrutiny. Google has even started a pay service that is so
pathetic that if Microsoft had attempted to offer a similar deal to the
general public, they would be sued for fraud.

I believe it is in everybody's interest to simple abandon Google and
it's email service until they become a more rules compliant service.


-- 
Gerard