[sup-talk] Gmail IMAP with sup

[Marc Hartstein]

Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Wed Apr 16 11:16:57 -0400 2008:
> 
> There's no tutorial, at least not yet. What Jeff said is best practice
> at this point---most everyone has switched to offlineimap as an
> intermediate layer because Gmail (and possibly the Ruby IMAP libraries)
> isn't fast enough for loading large threads.

Just curious, why do people prefer offlineimap to fetchmail (using
either IMAP or POP protocols)?  Given that sup doesn't write back to the
store, so you're not getting the IMAP advantage of sending read status
back to the server...
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