[Dovecot] Dovecot -> Gmail (via POP Mail Fetcher)

Rick Romero rick at havokmon.com
Mon Apr 20 20:09:02 EEST 2009


Quoting "Seth Mattinen" <sethm at rollernet.us>:

> Neil wrote:
>> imapsync is failing for me, with very odd errors; mostly "failure to append
>> message to folder", or some such...  And unlike most of the failures with
>> imapsync, it didn't just error out (and give me the message with "N messages
>> failed."), it just flat out crashes (it's outputting as if it's running, and
>> then suddenly drops me back to a prompt).
>> I kind of gave up on it for Gmail; but if you want to take a look at the
>> errors, I'd be happy to toss you the log.
>>
>
> Yeah, gmail doesn't support folders. Their IMAP support is misleading.
> Try dumping it all to INBOX.
>

In my experience mail will still be transferred to Gmail - it just  
gets stuck under an 'IMAP - foldername' label instead of a "real"  
synced folder.  Maybe they've broken it more since :)





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