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

[Anne W. <can...@go...>]

On Tuesday 18 Sep 2007, Gerard Seibert wrote:
> On Tuesday September 18, 2007 at 04:50:36 (AM) Matthias Andree wrote:
> >
> > 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.

There's more than one way to skin a cat.  Using a gmail account allows google 
to skim out around 50% of spam that comes to me.  Using gmail's forwarding 
facility the remaining messages are then sent to my ISP account.  Used this 
way you get a real benefit, and fetchmail doesn't have to talk to gmail at 
all.

Anne