Claws mail setup for Gmail

[toothandnail]

I know I've had this working in the past (with earlier versions of Salix), but I'm not getting very far at the moment.

Does anyone have a sample of a working setup for IMAP with Gmail? I've set it up with both the ports I normally use in Seamonkey, and told it to use TLS for connecting. But its not going anywhere - a couple of times it has come up and complained about an incomplete mailbox, but it fails to connect to Gmail every time I try, and if I start it at the moment, doesn't seem to do anything.

Paul.

[djemos]

Port for incoming mail is 993 and ssl not tls. (server is imap.gmail.com)
Port for outgoing messages ( if you want to use gmail smtp to send email's) is 465. (server is smtp.gmail.com)
username is your-gmail-username@gmail.com

And of cource you have to connect to your gmail account and enable imap for gmail.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ ... swer=77659
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ ... swer=78892

[toothandnail]

Port for incoming mail is 993 and ssl not tls. (server is imap.gmail.com)
Port for outgoing messages ( if you want to use gmail smtp to send email's) is 465. (server is smtp.gmail.com)
username is your-gmail-username@gmail.com

And of cource you have to connect to your gmail account and enable imap for gmail.
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ ... swer=77659
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/answ ... swer=78892

Thanks. I was using just user name, not full email address.

I've been using Imap on gmail for quite a while, through Seamonkey. Interested to try Claws for a while as an alternative.

Paul.

[mimosa]

I did it like this

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/h ... claws-mail

which suggests port 587 for SMTP.

Not only did it take ages to get going, as mentioned in the link above (but presumably, this is only once), but then when I closed it it spent a ridiculous time on some housekeeping - same again when I tried a second time.

I was just having a look out of curiosity (I use alpine), but if I were to have another go, I would try port 465 for SMTP as suggested by djemos. Though it's probably not that that was slowing it down. Maybe, indeed, that too was a one-off process triggered by my sending an email.

[toothandnail]

I did it like this

http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/howto/h ... claws-mail

which suggests port 587 for SMTP.

I've always used 465, which is the port Gmail specify in their help pages.

Not only did it take ages to get going, as mentioned in the link above (but presumably, this is only once), but then when I closed it it spent a ridiculous time on some housekeeping - same again when I tried a second time.

I was just having a look out of curiosity (I use alpine), but if I were to have another go, I would try port 465 for SMTP as suggested by djemos. Though it's probably not that that was slowing it down. Maybe, indeed, that too was a one-off process triggered by my sending an email.

I've got quite a bit of mail in my Gmail account - Claws took a long time to build the mail tree, but is quite fast once that is done.

The only thing lacking in the Salix version is HTML rendering. I get too much HTML mail, mainly commercial in nature, so I'll have to see if I can build the HTML plugin for it. If that works, I'll give Claws a try for a while. Be interesting to see how well it works compared to the Seamonkey email client.

Paul.