Re: [Evolution] Evolution and Gmail

[Ng Oon-Ee <ngoonee gmail com>]

Let me first note that its confusing having multiple replies on the same
topic to various people all in a row =). Continuing below...

On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 08:53 -0500, Christian wrote:
> On Sun, 2010-10-31 at 17:43 +0000, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > >  Other e-mail clients has while
> > > Thunderbird has a custom setting having the Gmail trash folder used.
> > > That could be the other option for Evo: A custom setting for Gmail.
> >
> > So because Gmail decides to break a standard, Evo has to program around
> > it?
>
> In my opinion, yes although "has to" is too strong. Evo "should"
> consider the Gmail service so important to support that resolving this
> problem should be looked into. Fortunately there's now Thunderbird which
> has such a fix. I've used Evo for years but now through some projects
> I'm involved in I have to use a Gmail powered account quite extensively.
> I will check out Thunderbird and see how close to Evo it is in other
> ways and then make a decision what to do. Evo already has great support
> for Google calendar and address book. I do not understand why it
> shouldn't support Google's email also.

Good luck using Thunderbird. It is simple not comparable with
Evolution's feature set. In fact the ONLY way it outdoes Evolution
currently (IMO) is the way it handles threading.

If you want to handle gmail in this specific way, why not using
offlineimap as an interface between evo and gmail (I do this in order to
maintain an offline copy of my email at all times), it allows for 'true'
delete to be reflected to gmail.