Junio C Hamano <gitster@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As it is a pain to access gmail inbox via imap (I was told that > something called "offline imap" may alleviate the pain, but I > haven't tried it yet), offlineimap isn't bad; I've been using it since 2003-2004 and can say it's easier-to-setup and more reliable than isync/mbsync, especially with not-so-great "IMAP" servers. offlineimap also has specific examples in the docs for Gmail's weird IMAP interface. My main complaints about it are high memory usage and slowness. > I tend to use NNTP interface to either gmane > or public-inbox almost exclusively, so like everybody else, it often > takes a message hours before I see it due to this throttling. I do > not see the message I am responding to on public-inbox, and I am > responding to the copy I got direct from you, for example. Looks like vger is down, my mail server can't make connections to it on port 25 at all. Good thing we have a reply-to-all convention here :)