On 2008-03-08, Dave Uhring <daveuhring@yahoo.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 08 Mar 2008 07:19:51 -0600, problems wrote:
>
>> Something that I read seemed to suggest that gmail can do
>> pop and smtp as well. Is this true ?
>
> You can use POP3, but you need to use a GUI MUA which can be configured
> for a different port and use TLS.

No graphical MUA necessary. I use mutt and msmtp.

~/.msmtprc-gmail

account default
host smtp.gmail.com
port 587
protocol smtp
auth on
from someone@gmail.com
user someone@gmail.com
password [delete]
tls on
tls_starttls on
logfile ~/.msmtp-log

>
> That was a far as I got with them since I use fetchmail and mutt.
>

Me too.

~/.fetchmailrc-gmail

poll pop.gmail.com
proto pop3
port 995
user "someone@gmail.com"
pass ""
is tom here
mda "/usr/bin/formail -s /usr/bin/procmail ~/.procmailrc-gmail"
fetchall
flush
ssl


Don't recall there being anything special about using mutt here.

Tom

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