BeMail defaults to IMAP even though IMAP is broken

[dsuden]

When setting up a new e-mail account in BeMail, the first option given to users is IMAP, which is apparently not functioning right now. That sends them down a blind alley full of error messages... and if they're like me, they could easily assume the whole program is non-functioning and give up on it. POP3 does work, from what I'm told...so I propose that POP3 is made the default option when setting up a new account. I'd even suggest the IMAP option be removed from the combo for now, until it works.

[axeld]

While there is no BeMail anymore, I don't see much reason to change this right now; if we did a release, it should indeed probably disable IMAP (although I heard that it does work for some people, at least Clemens) altogether.

I plan to resume working on IMAP in the December/January time frame, so unless we do a release before, say, March, that time would probably be wasted :-)

[dsuden]

Is there any Haiku mail client that presently works fine with IMAP?

[richienyhus]

Beam uses its own daemon and is in HaikuDepot. ​https://depot.haiku-os.org/#/pkg/beam/1/2/-/-/1/x86 ​https://github.com/olta/beam

There is also the PIM Scooby, but who knows what state that is in. ​https://github.com/HaikuArchives/Scooby

[waddlesplash]

IMAP should be working now, I think?

[pulkomandy]

If it doesn't, that should be reported in a separate ticket.

[dcatt]

I (re)tried Mail recently with both my email providers using IMAP and I couldn't get it to work reliably. It definitely needs some work before the R1 release. I think the biggest thing it needs is to expose the ability to configure ports, etc... MailNews has worked fine for me though I'd love to use Mail instead.

[pulkomandy]

IIRC you can set ports using the usual host:port notation (smtp.example.com:25 or whatever). Also, there is a database of well-known mail providers which should auto-fill most of this, if your provider isn't in there consider making a bugreport with a link to their information and we'll add it to our database.