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Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP
From: |
Robert Thorpe |
Subject: |
Re: tutorial for rmail and IMAP |
Date: |
Wed, 30 Apr 2014 01:50:07 +0100 |
Earlier this week Sam Halliday was trying to access his gmail account
using movemail. He couldn't do it and I couldn't access mine when I
tried it. I got some advice off-list from Herbert Skuhra and tried it
out today. It worked. Oddly enough a command I tried out earlier that
failed started to work.
I can download my gmail email with:
movemail -p 'imaps://MyEmail%40gmail.com@imap.gmail.com' gmail.mbox
mypassword
As Herbert Skuhra told me "imaps" must be used instead of "imap" to
activate SSL. %40 replaces the @ in the username. The password can be
on the command line, if it isn't then movemail asks for it. The "-p"
preserves the source inbox, making it a copy rather than a move - it's
not needed if you want a move.
I think the problem here was that gmail takes some time to enable IMAP.
Perhaps when you click on "Enable IMAP" in the settings it only takes
effect a few hours later or the next day. That's the best explanation I
can come up with anyway.
BR,
Robert Thorpe
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