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		RK on Jan 3, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: There's no avoiding Google+ Why not just use IMAP for gmail access?

josteink on Jan 3, 2013 [–]

If you are going to use IMAP, why would you use gmail at all?

Gmail's main selling point is the excellent web-interface, not the way the mail-store works well with IMAP.

gallerytungsten on Jan 3, 2013 | [–]

>If you are going to use IMAP, why would you use gmail at all?

As an alternate email address, for any number of a variety of reasons.

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