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On 2015-07-22, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> Very soon after being invited to open a gmail account, I discovered |
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> that google offers non-web-browser access to their free (as in beer) |
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> email servers. |
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Yep. Their IMAP implementation is pretty well done. Definitly better |
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than courier and far better than MS exchange server. |
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> This puzzled me (still does) because it seems to violate google's basic |
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> business model, which is based on advertising revenue. (I never see an |
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> advertisement when sending/reading email via smtp/imap, obviously.) |
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I think the theory is that you'll still use gmail via web some of the |
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time [I do when I want to search] and probably calendar, and contacts, |
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and other stuff [I certainly do]. Plus, they still get to trawl through |
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all your email traffic. |
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> Google has just introduced a 120-second delay before allowing login to |
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> their email servers. Just in the last day or two, literally. |
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I'm not seeing that with either of my gmail accounts. Same login |
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times as always (1-2 seconds) on both IMAP and SMTP servers. |
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Grant |
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