Gmail's imap protocol is driving me crazy!

Is Gmail crazy, or does Gmail want to drive me crazy?

I am used to outlook and want to download more than N mailboxes to my computer in a centralized manner, so that I can access them anytime on the plane, especially attachments, in the toilet.

At the same time, I do not know if it is found that Gmail does not have the sorting function. Some loyal advocates say that Gmail has changed the access mode, and everything is searched. But do you want to allow me the freedom to occasionally not search? For example, if I want to find an email sent to me by someone on January 1, last December, or when I want to clear my mailbox, I want to sort it by mail size. The Gmail interface is not allowed at all! This makes it easy on the client.

When using the Outlook client, I used to use the IMAP Protocol. In this way, in theory, my client and server always maintain the image. That is, if I delete any email, the client and server will be deleted as soon as they are synchronized. In this way, I only need to perform one maintenance operation. G fans, don't tell me that Gmail has saved the world and given everyone a big enough mailbox. Now people no longer need to delete emails. I receive a bunch of spam every day, there may be viruses and Trojans. Do you have to make me have the right to delete the posts? All the pigs in the world have the right to delete my posts, and my mailbox won't let me take the lead?

However, the IMAP rules of Gmail are different from those of the world in two ways:

1. Because Gmail's IMAP folder is implemented with labels. That is to say, the "customer" folder of an IMAP corresponds to the "customer" tag on the online interface. When I move an email to the "customer" folder, I actually add a "customer" label to the online email. And vice versa. Removing a folder is equivalent to removing this tag. In particular, Multiple labels are relative to the front and back of directories. That is, there is a difference between the "customer, supplier" and "supplier, customer", and the "customer/Supplier" and "supplier/customer" folders.

2. Gmail has an "all mail", which includes "everything and other" emails that people in Northeast China say. That is, two copies of all emails will be downloaded, one to the corresponding folder, but one to all mail ". If your mailbox reaches 1 GB, you will know how slow the system will be. Because the IMAP service of Gmail is a quality that is extremely incompatible with its reputation, the mailbox is over 700 m, that is, "geeeeeee mail", which is extremely slow.

 

All of this can be tolerated. After all, it is a free big mailbox, and people's rules are not completely unreasonable. When we get the benefits of others, we have to follow the rules of others.

 

Therefore, I always play this way:

1) use Internet IE to browse

2) on the mobile phone, outlook in the notebook uses IMAP to download the mailbox, but does not subscribe to "all mail", reducing traffic. (Mobile phone traffic is charged based on Kbytes. Does Google have shares in Mobile ?)

 

However, I slowly felt that there was a problem with the speed: especially on mobile phones, it basically timed out; on the laptop, Outlook waited endlessly.

 

Constantly read the size of the outlook mailbox folder, a total of 350-400 m, a considerable distance from the M recognized warning line. On the Internet, Gmail tells me that some mailboxes are about 1.2 GB. Too unreliable.

 

I can't stand it today, so I will sort it by mail size. Let's start to delete the posts from large to small... Sweating on the head, my heart bleeding to delete more than N stickers, the network is less than 4 m? What's going on?

 

Suddenly, I opened "all mail", and I was so stupid. I went crazy: Gmail kept all my posts faithfully in it: All the spam, all Viruses and Trojan emails, all emails that I have deleted over the past few years that do not need to be saved ......

A few hours later, Outlook told me that 5764 mail headers have been found, and the Gmail IMAP service is only a dozen K faster. It is estimated that the download will not be completed until tomorrow.

But tomorrow, how should I deal with the garbage accumulated over the past few years? How long does it take?

 

I deleted each email one by one, and cleared it in the trash folder. After two procedures, the email was completely hidden. I don't understand. What is the logic? Is "inbox" also a label? If the email does not have any labels, shouldn't it be in the default "inbox" folder? When I delete an email in the "spam" folder, is it actually the "spam" label of the email? At least the imap process should be called the online process? Am I stupid? Or is Gmail too clever?

 

I worked hard to maintain my mailbox, delete it without any need, and scan the junk and toxic content to save space and traffic. The results were all secretly treasured by "Gmail, do Google's storage and traffic cost nothing? Is my illness? Or is Gmail crazy?

URL: http://vincentyang.cn/blogs/vincentyang/archive/2009/08/12/gmail-imap.aspx