Re: Bug#469331: ITP: python-libgmail-imap -- Python bindings to access Gmail accounts (IMAP implementation)

[Tollef Fog Heen <tfheen@err.no>]

* "Steinar H. Gunderson" 

| On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 09:56:20AM -0800, Sebastien Delafond wrote:
| > GmailImap is a collection of libraries which provides Python bindings
| > to access to Google's Gmail Imap service.
| 
| Why would one want this library instead of a generic IMAP library?

Apart from the other reasons stated in this thread, I could imagine it
giving you workaround for some of the bugs and missing features in the
google IMAP server.  See [1] for more details.

[1] http://pvanhoof.be/blog/index.php/2008/03/03/a-few-months-of-google-imap-lets-evaluate

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