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

[Rob M. <rob...@gm...>]

On 9/18/07, Gerard Seibert <ge...@se...> wrote:
<---SNIP--->
> 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.

You can guess where I sit on this :)

I've found GMail a significantly better service than Hotmail ever was.
 To date I've not lost any messages sent to my GMail account.  I've
documented a number of cases where email sent to, and accepted by,
Hotmail has never arrived.  I've no way of knowing how many other
emails never made it.

Yes, their POP/SMTP interface may not be the best (though I've never
used either so can't speak from experience).  However as a webmail
service I've not had any problems.

If they're breaking the RFCs then by all means report the problems to
them (and document them in a blog/create threads on digg or
slashdot/whatever).  However even in the case that spawned this
thread, I'm not sure they're technically breaking the RFCs, just POLA
:)

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