Posted by Ace on 09/30/05 18:23

> Nicolas Verhaeghewrote:
There are not making it easy, do they?
>
> If you can take care of the SSL issue, then what you need to do is
create a
> database in which you store the list of the emails returned with the
LIST
> command, open all of them with the RETR command, save the header to
the
> database and each time you click to read, then mark as read in the
database.
>
> But an individual RETR from a different client will not have effects
on your
> database, which is why IMAP is needed.
>
> I would suggest for Google to offer IMAP. Even AOL does. Its email
system is
> IMAP-based (for once they did not reinvent the Internet).

You are damn right there! - Actually there is a petition on the net
for Gmail to include IMAP (
http://www.petitiononline.com/igmail/petition.html ) :-)

Anyway - As I said earlier - I'm just going to keep on using Gmail
Lite - it works just fine and allows my users to check their Gmail
email without having to leave my site!

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