Re: [Evolution] Evolution and gmail

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 13:10 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2022-08-16 at 12:19 +0200, Jaroslaw Rafa via evolution-list
> wrote:
> > Dnia 16.08.2022 o godz. 11:12:12 Patrick O'Callaghan pisze:
> > > We've been over this before. There's nothing stopping you from
> > > syncing
> > > your IMAP account to your local machine. There is *NO* advantage
> > > to
> > > using POP, and a number of disadvantages. The only reason to ever
> > > use
> > > it is if your mail provider doesn't support IMAP.
> >
> > There is one more valid reason to use POP: if you have a main mail
> > account
> > (A) and a secondary one (B), and you want to have all messages from
> > account
> > B forwarded to account A, but account B doesn't allow to configure
> > forwarding.
> >
> > If account A allows to configure fetching mail via POP from remote
> > accounts,
> > you can then configure some way of "forwarding" from B to A by
> > fetching mail
> > via POP.
>
> Yes, I would concede that. I occasionally do that as it's a way of
> fetching mail *into* my Gmail account from another account. However
> that's a special case.

Just to add that this isn't an actual advantage of POP in itself. It's
a "necessary evil" because Gmail doesn't support fetching via IMAP from
a different service.

poc