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authorMatthias Andree <matthias.andree@gmx.de>2008-04-24 08:19:35 +0000
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<a href="#I7">I7. How can I use fetchmail with SpryNet?</a><br/>
<a href="#I8">I8. How can I use fetchmail with comcast.net or other
Maillennium servers?</a><br/>
+<a href="#I9">I9. How can I use fetchmail with GMail/Google Mail?</a><br/>
<h2 id="C_K">How to set up well-known security and authentication
methods</h2>
@@ -1969,6 +1970,16 @@ sites.)</p>
<p>Workaround for older versions: use the <tt>fetchall</tt> option.</p>
+<h2><a id="I9" name="I9">I9. How can I use fetchmail with GMail/Google Mail?</a></h2>
+
+<p>Google's IMAP servers, as of April 2008, are broken and re-encode
+MIME-encoded headers improperly and are not feature-complete yet. The
+model how their servers organize mail also deviates in significant ways
+from what the POP3 or IMAP protocol 'fathers' conceived. This means all
+sorts of strange effects, for instance, your sent mail may show up in
+the mail that fetchmail fetches. It's best to avoid fetching mail from
+Google until they are using standards-compliant software.</p>
+
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<h1>How to set up well-known security and authentication
methods</h1>