[plug] Gmail Accounts

[Cameron Patrick]

Craig Ringer wrote:

| For me, IMAP has so far won fair and square, despite most IMAP
| clients sucking (usually because they download FAR TOO MUCH when
| starting a session, insist on downloading entire messages with
| attachments instead of just the body, etc)

Have you looked into using Offline IMAP to synchronise mail between
local mailboxes and an IMAP server?  That way you at least don't have
the latency problems that you do with IMAP over slow links.

| There is the advantage of access from anywhere. I solve that with https 
| and Squirrelmail. Sure, squirrelmail isn't nice to use, but I only have 
| to use it when I for some reason need my mail and don't have my
| laptop. 

Well I don't have a laptop (yet?) so I use Squirrel Mail to read my
mail when I'm at Uni.  It's a better-behaved IMAP client than Mutt
(not that this is hard :-P) and is plenty nice enough for what I need
it for.  It even does threading (though at a significant performance
loss, so I don't use it) and stuff.  Still, I don't think I'd want to
use it as my main e-mail client.

Cameron.