From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:17:55 +1100 From: Adrian Tritschler Subject: Re: [9fans] gmail 0: messages In-reply-to: To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Message-id: <439789C3.5020501@ajft.org> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.5 (X11/20050711) References: <20051207102914.247b74ab.countryjoe@myrealbox.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Topicbox-Message-UUID: be79fa1c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Russ Cox wrote: >> I'm out of option for now as how to get my gmail emails on my plan9 >> box. > Gmail pop is not compatible with Plan 9. Gmail assumes that clients > are running in what is usually called "move messages off the server"=20 > mode, and so once the client has downloaded a message, gmail doesn't > show the message to the client again. This confuses upas/fs, which=20 > expects to see the same set of messages the next time it connects, > assuming that if a message is gone, it has been deleted. >=20 > In Gmail's defense, they're using pop3 in a context it wasn't > designed for, namely having It seems to me that Gmail (and others) seem to be using POP3 to emulate (badly) what IMAP is designed to do. Does anyone know why they (and others) choose to do this? > thousands or more messages to show the user. Rather than respond to ..snip.. > You cannot use gmail's pop server directly. >=20 > Russ Adrian --------------------------------------------------------------- Adrian Tritschler mailto:ajft@ajft.org Latitude 38=C2=B0S, Longitude 145=C2=B0E, Altitude 50m, Shoe size 44 ---------------------------------------------------------------