[Tfug] Gmail gets IMAP

Jeremy D Rogers jdrogers at optics.arizona.edu
Tue Oct 30 11:35:44 MST 2007


Wait, what? I thought everyone got it all at once. You can't see the
IMAP setting under your gmail settings? For me it is right in there
with the POP settings. What's weird is that it is enabled for my
account and I never explicitly turned it on. I signed up around the
same time.. maybe late 2004ish.

On 10/30/07, Matt Jacob <matt.jacob at gmail.com> wrote:
> I still don't have IMAP enabled in my account yet, but I'm waiting
> patiently. I got invited to Gmail right around April or May of 2004,
> so I wonder if they're rolling out IMAP to the newest accounts first.
> When did you guys sign up?
>
> Matt
>
> On 10/30/07, Robert Hunter <hunter at tfug.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 12:24:01AM -0700, jrcresawn at gmail.com wrote:
> > > Thanks for this information.  This is a wonderful solution if you want to
> > > continue to receive local mail without having to reconfigure your default
> > > MTA—exim in the case of Debian.
> >
> > Yes, and it was much easier to setup than exim.  Here is my config --
> > hopefully it will save you some time if you decide to use msmtp :-)
> >
> > <msmtp-config>
> > # Set default values for all following accounts.
> > defaults
> > tls on
> > tls_trust_file ~/.ca-certificates.crt
> > tls_key_file ~/.gnutls.key
> > tls_cert_file ~/.gnutls.cert
> > tls_starttls off
> > logfile ~/msmtp.log
> >
> > # gmail
> > account gmail
> > host smtp.gmail.com
> > port 465
> > from myAccount at gmail.com
> > auth plain
> > user myAccount
> > password myPassword
> >
> > # Set a default account
> > account default : gmail
> > </msmtp-config>
> >
> >
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Jeremy D. Rogers, Ph.D.
Postdoctoral Fellow
Biomedical Engineering
Northwestern University




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