[X4U] Can Apple's Mail pick up GMail?

[Eugene]

On Tue, Oct 07, 2008 at 12:38:11AM CDT, Wendy S. Austin <wendy_austin at mac.com> wrote:
> On 07 Oct 2008, at 05:24, Linda wrote:
>
>>>> . I'm told it's cumbersome to deal with attachments -- and I do that
>>>> every day, many times a day.
>>>
>>> False. Dealing with attachments is easy.
>>
>> Reading up the thread, not everyone agrees that this is easy.
> 
> I switched to IMAP about a year ago and have not noticed any difference 
> with how it handles attachments compared to my previous POP account.

IMAP and POP deal with how messages are stored, transferred, maintained, etc.
They don't deal with what's inside messages, e.g. attachments; that's the job
of the mail client, e.g. Mail.app, Outlook, Entourage, Thunderbird, Eudora,
Pegasus Mail (for you older-timers).


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Eugene
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