Claws with new Gmail IMAP
Yesterday, after reading new Gmail IMAP availability discovered one of my accounts had been IMAP-blessed by the Gmail fortune god. I activated it inmediately, wondering how well it would play with Claws Mail.
Now my wonders are answered. A quick review:
Connection went all right. Thanks the quick IMAP setup page for other clients offered in Gmail's help configuring a new account in Claws Mail is a matter of seconds. The dialog of the initial contact follows:
[07:14:31] IMAP4< * OK Gimap ready for requests from 83.97.220.22 c25if573683ika * IMAP connection is un-authenticated [07:14:42] IMAP4> 1 CAPABILITY [07:14:42] IMAP4< * CAPABILITY IMAP4rev1 UNSELECT IDLE NAMESPACE QUOTA XYZZY [07:14:42] IMAP4< 1 OK Thats all she wrote! c25if573683ika [07:14:42] IMAP4> Logging monesz@gmail.com to imap.gmail.com using LOGIN [07:14:46] IMAP4< Login to imap.gmail.com successful [07:14:46] IMAP4> 3 LIST "" "" [07:14:46] IMAP4< * LIST (\Noselect) "/" "/" [07:14:46] IMAP4< 3 OK Success [07:14:46] IMAP4> 4 LSUB "" "%" [07:14:46] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "INBOX" [07:14:46] IMAP4< * LSUB (\Noselect) "/" "[Gmail]" [07:14:46] IMAP4< 4 OK Success [07:14:46] IMAP4> 5 LSUB "" "INBOX/%" [07:14:46] IMAP4< 5 OK Success [07:14:46] IMAP4> 6 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/%" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/All Mail" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/Drafts" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/Spam" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/Starred" [07:14:47] IMAP4< * LSUB () "/" "[Gmail]/Trash" [07:14:47] IMAP4< 6 OK Success [07:14:47] IMAP4> 7 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/All Mail/%" [07:14:47] IMAP4< 7 OK Success [07:14:47] IMAP4> 8 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/Drafts/%" [07:14:47] IMAP4< 8 OK Success [07:14:47] IMAP4> 9 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/Sent Mail/%" [07:14:47] IMAP4< 9 OK Success [07:14:47] IMAP4> 10 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/Spam/%" [07:14:48] IMAP4< 10 OK Success [07:14:48] IMAP4> 11 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/Starred/%" [07:14:48] IMAP4< 11 OK Success [07:14:48] IMAP4> 12 LSUB "" "[Gmail]/Trash/%" [07:14:48] IMAP4< 12 OK Success
Access: notice the folders the Gmail servers seems to provide under [Gmail]. These have the following appearance under Claws folder tree, right after setting up:
These folders seems to reflect Gmail's left menu folders, though they happen to be unaccesible with Claws:
[07:15:52] IMAP4> 30 STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:15:54] IMAP4< * STATUS [Gmail]/All Mail (MESSAGES 18 UIDNEXT 167 UIDVALIDITY 1 UNSEEN 1) [07:15:54] IMAP4< 30 OK Success [07:15:54] IMAP4> 31 SELECT "[Gmail]/All Mail" ** can't select folder: [Gmail]/All Mail [07:16:00] IMAP4> 32 STATUS "[Gmail]/All Mail" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:16:00] IMAP4< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*) [07:16:00] IMAP4< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] [07:16:00] IMAP4< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 1] [07:16:00] IMAP4< * 18 EXISTS [07:16:00] IMAP4< * 0 RECENT [07:16:00] IMAP4< * OK [UNSEEN 1] [07:16:00] IMAP4< * OK [UIDNEXT 167] [07:16:00] IMAP4< 31 OK [READ-WRITE] [Gmail]/All Mail selected. (Success) [07:16:00] IMAP4> 33 STATUS "[Gmail]/Drafts" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:16:00] IMAP4< * STATUS [Gmail]/All Mail (MESSAGES 18 UIDNEXT 167 UIDVALIDITY 1 UNSEEN 1) [07:16:00] IMAP4< 32 OK Success [07:16:00] IMAP4> 34 SELECT "[Gmail]/Drafts" ** can't select folder: [Gmail]/Drafts [07:16:01] IMAP4> 35 STATUS "[Gmail]/Drafts" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:16:01] IMAP4< * STATUS [Gmail]/Drafts (MESSAGES 0 UIDNEXT 1 UIDVALIDITY 18 UNSEEN 0) [07:16:01] IMAP4< 33 OK Success [07:16:01] IMAP4> 36 STATUS "[Gmail]/Sent Mail" (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:16:01] IMAP4< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*) [07:16:01] IMAP4< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] [07:16:01] IMAP4< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 18] [07:16:01] IMAP4< * 0 EXISTS [07:16:01] IMAP4< * 0 RECENT [07:16:01] IMAP4< * OK [UNSEEN 0] [07:16:01] IMAP4< * OK [UIDNEXT 1] [07:16:01] IMAP4< 34 OK [READ-WRITE] [Gmail]/Drafts selected. (Success) [07:16:01] IMAP4> 37 SELECT "[Gmail]/Sent Mail"
This is just a part of the log, the remaining folders went the same way.
On the other side the INBOX folder works fine and has the (3) mails expected according the web interface:
[07:18:31] IMAP4> 5 STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES UIDNEXT UIDVALIDITY UNSEEN) [07:18:31] IMAP4< * STATUS INBOX (MESSAGES 3 UIDNEXT 19 UIDVALIDITY 2 UNSEEN 0) [07:18:31] IMAP4< 5 OK Success [07:18:31] IMAP4> 6 SELECT INBOX [07:18:32] IMAP4< * FLAGS (\Answered \Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*) [07:18:32] IMAP4< * OK [PERMANENTFLAGS (\Flagged \Draft \Deleted \Seen \*)] [07:18:32] IMAP4< * OK [UIDVALIDITY 2] [07:18:32] IMAP4< * 3 EXISTS [07:18:32] IMAP4< * 0 RECENT [07:18:32] IMAP4< * OK [UNSEEN 0] [07:18:32] IMAP4< * OK [UIDNEXT 19] [07:18:32] IMAP4< 6 OK [READ-WRITE] INBOX selected. (Success) [07:18:32] IMAP4- [fetching UIDs...] [07:18:32] IMAP4> 7 UID FETCH 1:* (UID) [07:18:32] IMAP4< * 1 FETCH (UID 1) [07:18:32] IMAP4< * 2 FETCH (UID 2) [07:18:32] IMAP4< * 3 FETCH (UID 3) [07:18:32] IMAP4< 7 OK Success [07:18:32] IMAP4> 8 UID FETCH 1:3 (UID FLAGS RFC822.SIZE BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (Date From To Cc Subject Message-ID References In-Reply-To)]) [07:18:32] IMAP4< [FETCH data - 1024 bytes] [07:18:32] IMAP4< [FETCH data - 302 bytes] [07:18:32] IMAP4- [fetching flags...] [07:18:32] IMAP4> 9 UID FETCH 1:* (FLAGS UID) [07:18:33] IMAP4< * 1 FETCH (UID 1 FLAGS (\Seen)) [07:18:33] IMAP4< * 2 FETCH (UID 2 FLAGS (\Seen)) [07:18:33] IMAP4< * 3 FETCH (UID 3 FLAGS (\Seen)) [07:18:33] IMAP4< 9 OK Success
General impression: lacking features like subscription, but seems faster downloading. Slow response on logons, it takes several seconds to get response when leaving the folder. Some re-connections seen, which is not good for a five minutes test I guess.
And that's all for now... :-)