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

[Neil]

On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 1:09 PM, Rick Romero <rick at havokmon.com> wrote:

> 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 :)
>

I can make folders on Gmail using a normal IMAP client (but yeah, it's not
always pretty), so I don't think that's the problem.

But it seems like they've broken _something_, because no tool I use works
consistently with their server, it seems (as far as upload...downloading
seems to work fine...).

Ugh, I wished Google used Dovecot too...