On Sat, 2016-09-17 at 07:34 -0600, Greg Woods wrote: > Google *Is* trying to discourage use of IMAP. They want everyone to use > their API's (via the web interface or a Gmail-specific app). Their tech > support people have told us this much. Whether they are actually causing > failures to discourage IMAP use is, of course, pure speculation. All I can > say there is that there are people who believe they are doing this based on > their own tests. Anecdotal evidence only. Take it for what it's worth. Just to follow up on this, the Google Developer's documentation on the Gmail API (https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/guides/) explicitly states that "The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full- fledged email client access. Instead, see IMAP and SMTP". They further state (https://developers.google.com/gmail/imap_extensions) that "Gmail provides a set of IMAP extensions to allow authors of IMAP clients provide a more Gmail-like experience through IMAP. Developers integrating Gmail features into their web or mobile apps may instead want to use the RESTful Gmail API." To paraphrase: if you want to use Gmail via a web app, use their API. If you want to use it via a client program, use IMAP. Seems fairly unambiguous to me. poc _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
