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Re:Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conv... by naspeh on Sunday April 06, 2014 @01:22PM (#7541624)
I know IMAP is hard way, but it most used nowadays. Now I try to work with gmail imap, so it is easier for support just one server for first.

BTW. I had seen unicode issues... And yes, there is a lot of work...

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Re:Mailr: an open-source webmail client with Gmail-like conv... by XorNot on Sunday April 06, 2014 @06:50PM (#7543539)
Gmail IMAP's IDLE support is broken (probably intentionally). It will report new messages, but it won't report changes to the number of unread messages (or which messages).

This means your clients don't automatically update read message stats, which is a pain (most surprising thing I noticed moving to Gmail from hosting IMAP on my home server).

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